This is an analysis of the poem Trois Quatrains (Le Casque De Velours) that begins with:
Le casque de velours, qui de plumes s’égaie,
Rabat sur les sourcils les boucles, frondaison...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011 101110110100 1111111100 1011101111 110101100 11101011111 1110011111 101011111100 11011011101 11110100001 100111110010 11011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, la are repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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