This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet (La Robe De Laine) that begins with:
La robe de laine a des tons d’ivoire
Encadrant le buste, et puis, les guipures...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXXXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110101110 10001111100 10011111010 01111011 111111110110 1101100001 11100100 111110001 111101 1101101 11111101010 111110011 1101110111 11111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vous is repeated.
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