This is an analysis of the poem Platonisme that begins with:
La chair de la Femme, argile Extatique,
Nos doigts polluants la vont-ils toucher ?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110100 111011110 110111000 111011010 11011011110 1101011010 111100101 111001101 101111110 1111010 1111110110 100111110 111100111110 110011000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; la, de, un are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.
The author used the same word la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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