This is an analysis of the poem Mets Ta Chaise Près De La Mienne that begins with:

Mets ta chaise près de la mienne
Et tends les mains vers le foyer ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXb bbXXXXX XXXaaXX XXXaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011 11111010 111111011 1110 100 11001 10001011 1111010 110111111 1110101100 10110111111 111010111111 1101101101 1111001111111 1101111 1101111100 100010110010 1110111011001 1111101111 11110011001 11011111111 111011111111 1111001111111 11001011110 100010111000 11111111110 11111111100 1100111110 1100111100 101110001010 10111110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, s are repeated.

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

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

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