This is an analysis of the poem La Confession that begins with:

Quoi ! tu l’as dit, plus d’amours à ta suite !
Quoi ! tu voudrais, t’effeuillant sous la croix,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XX XXXX aXXXXXXX XXXXXXXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,2,4,8,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111011 1110100111 1111011 0111111111 11111010 11110101011 10101111 1001100110 1011011000 1110110100 10110110010 111010110 11101111 011101110 101111011 1001100110 1111101010 111100011 11010101 111011011 10111111 100110011 1110111111 101010111 111011111 111110010 1111011 111011010 11101111 100110011 11010011 10111100 1011110110 1101100110 111001011 1011110 1110100111 1001111001 11111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, de, l are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quoi, , souvent, mais are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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

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