This is an analysis of the poem Sitôt Que Nos Bouches Se Touchent that begins with:

Sitôt que nos bouches se touchent,
Nous nous sentons tant plus clairs de nous-mêmes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101110 1110111011 111011110 11100111 111001110001 111001110 10 11001111100 110111010101 11111111 10011111 11111 101101110011 10111000110 11111111 111111010 110111111 11111111010 1101100100 110010 111011101110 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; nous, des, les are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Sitôt Que Nos Bouches Se Touchent;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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