This is an analysis of the poem Au Temps Où Longuement J'Avais Souffert that begins with:
Au temps où longuement j'avais souffert,
Où les heures m'étaient des pièges,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXX XXXX aaXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001010 11101110 110010010 1111010 11111011 1111000 1101011 11101010 111110 11111110110 10011110 11011010110 101111111 1111101 1110100 100111100110 111011001101 10011 111111110 110111100 11101010110 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, de, la are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, re are repeated).
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