This is an analysis of the poem Le Trésor that begins with:

Jadis, jadis vivait m'amie
Une princesse aux cheveux d'or,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXXXXXA BXXBaXBX CXXCXXCX XXXXdXXX XDXXXbXD DXddXXDX XEfXfXXE GXXgXXGX XaXXXXXa XXXXhXXX XXXXXXXbXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXhhXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXgXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,28,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1101101 11111011 1010101 1110110 1101111 1010101 1101101 111111 11111110 1011010 111111 1110101 1101110 111111 1111110 01111111 111011 11111 01111111 111001 1011111 01111111 111011 111111 1011110 111110 111111 1110011 1111011 111111 1011110 11100110 111001011 101011 11100110 11001110 11111110 11100110 111001011 11100100 1111101 1110100 010010100 1101100 1111111111 11100100 1011101 1101110 101111010 01101101 1101110 1111010 111010 1101110 101111010 010111 1111111 111111111 110111 10011101 10110100 010111 11111111 11101 01101101 1011111011 11101 011110 1010111 11101 01101101 11111110 111010 110111 110101110 100111 1111010 11110111 11101100 11011111 01011111 101100010 10111101 1010101 101010 11101100 1111110 11111110 111111 1111111 01001110 01110100 11111111 11101110 1100110 111111111 1111011 1110110 1111100 1110100 11101110 1111010 11001010 0110111 10111101 10101111 10101110 1110011111101 1111110010 111111010 10111111 1110011111101 111100011010 11011110100 110110100110 11011111100 111100011010 11111100110 1110101011110 1111011110 1111111111 11111100110 11010011101 10011110100 111101111000 111100101110 1101010101 10110011100 110001111111 1111110111 01001101100 10110011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 133
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; jadis, la, e, un, te, ', des, c, ur, vous, vos, et are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Le Trésor;
  • central theme;
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