This is an analysis of the poem Pour Nous Aimer Des Yeux that begins with:

Pour nous aimer des yeux,
Lavons nos deux regards de ceux...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXaXXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 10110101 11101110111 10110 10111111 111010 11 11010101 1010011010 111001010110 1111001 1011001100 11101110100 11111101111 1 11101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, et, des are repeated.

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

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