This is an analysis of the poem Comme Aux Âges Naïfs, Je T'Ai Donné Mon Coeur that begins with:

Comme aux âges naïfs, je t'ai donné mon coeur,
Ainsi qu'une ample fleur,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa XXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111111 1010101 1111111001 101111111 1111110101101 11101111111100 1101111111 11101111110 1100111 1001101111110111 111011111111 10101011100 1010010010 1101010110 1111111111000 1111110101 1101111 11000010 11101 100 0101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; la, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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