This is an analysis of the poem Les Jeux De L'Amour Et Du Hasard that begins with:

Quoi ! vous qui demeuriez sans voix
Devant un couplet trop grivois,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXBAX XXXXXC aaaXXC XXaXXC XXaXXC XXabXBAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,6,6,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 10110110 1111001 11111011 1110111 111 11111 11010111 1011110 1011110 1110110 1110110 1111100 111100 1001111 111000100 11100101 0110100 1101111 111100 111110 11110 1111011 1110110 1111110 111100 1111010 11001101 1101011 1111010 110110 111100 10111110 101111100 11111001 1011001 11111011 111 11111 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; vous, de, la are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word etc 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 la connects the lines.

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  • summary of Les Jeux De L'Amour Et Du Hasard;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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