This is an analysis of the poem Le Testament: Ballade: A S'Amye that begins with:
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXbd aXXacdaD cXceXdeDXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111 1101010110 01110101110 110100011101 111100111 1101111010 11011101 1100110110 111011011 011011010110 11011110100 1111111101 11111110110 11101101110 10100101111 100110110 1101101010 1110001110 1011111110 11110101 1011101101 111101110 111101111 100110110 100101010 1111010110 1111101110 0100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; that, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word crushing at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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