This is an analysis of the poem Mareye that begins with:

Mareye était très douce étourdie et charmante
Moi je l'aimais d'Amour m'aimait-elle, qui sait? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 101111110 111101010111 11101011100 1101011101 111111101010 11111111111 11110011100 11010111110 101010111101 1010101011110 11101111101110 11101010101 1101111101100 101100111111 11110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; ses, mains, les, o are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Mareye;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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