This is an analysis of the poem Tristesse D'Une Étoile that begins with:

Une belle Minerve est l'enfant de ma tête
Une étoile de sang me couronne à jamais...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111011 110111010 11001111010111 0111101110 11001111101 111101111 10101011011 0111110011101 111110111010 1011011110 11101011011 11110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; est, comme are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words une, comme are repeated.

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