This is an analysis of the poem Très Doucement, Plus Doucement Encore that begins with:

Très doucement, plus doucement encore,
Berce ma tête entre tes bras,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBAXXXa XbXX ABBXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110011 1111011 1110111111 1100110011 111111 1111110 111111 111111111111 0110101111 101110 11111010101 110001101010 1100110011 1111011 1110111111 11111110 111001111 1110110110 1011110111110 110001111110 11 111110110 11101101 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; doucement, et are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Très Doucement, Plus Doucement Encore;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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