This is an analysis of the poem Lorsque Tu Fermeras Mes Yeux À La Lumière that begins with:

Lorsque tu fermeras mes yeux à la lumière,
Baise-les longuement, car ils t'auront donné ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011110 1110011101 1111101010 101001011010 110010110 11101111110 111011111110 101001010 11111011010111 101111111011 11101111110 111110111 1101111111011 1110001111 111110111011 1101110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, que, se 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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  • summary of Lorsque Tu Fermeras Mes Yeux À La Lumière;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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