This is an analysis of the poem Je T'Apporte, Ce Soir... that begins with:

Je t'apporte, ce soir, comme offrande, ma joie
D'avoir plongé mon corps dans l'or et dans la soie ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXaaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111011 10111111111 011011100110 111110110110 11101010111 111010101011 111101001100 10111111110 1010110101 11101100110 1111111111111 10111011011 11101111111 1011111110 11001011111 111011011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; et, mes are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mes is repeated.

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