L'Amant Timide by Hégésippe Moreau: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem L'Amant Timide that begins with:

À seize ans, pauvre et timide
Devant les plus frais appas,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXXXXXba XXXXXXba XXXXXXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 1011110 0110110 11101101 1111111 111111 11110 111011 11111 1001110 1111111 1110011 1110110 1111100 1111010 1111011 1011011 110111 11010 111111111 111101 111110 111110 111111 1101100 1110110 1110110 111111 1101111 1011111 1111110 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qu is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word deux at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of L'Amant Timide;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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