This is an analysis of the poem Love's Suicide that begins with:
Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.
THIS treasure of love, these passion-flowers, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abccaabbab aaddeeffaa agccggaaag hcbbaaddhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111110 0100111010 110101101 01010101 111101011 01110101 11110011 11011101 110100111 110111010 110100101 11011101 11011001 01011101 11110100 01111101 01110101 01101111 10110001 11010100 110111101 1001011 11110101 11011101 110010111 10111101 11011101 000101100 111100110 11110011 01011111 11110111 11111111 11010101 11110111 11011101 111101110 11100101 11011101 11010011 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; such, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words such, i are repeated.
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