This is an analysis of the poem Au Poète Jean Aicard that begins with:

Les doigts de la brodeuse ont tiré le fil d'or
Lentement, doucement, tandis que sa pensée,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXaX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011011 10010010111 101001111010 1010001011 110010110010 1010011101100 111101011 10 1101011001100 1011100110 101000111111 0110101111 110110101 110101110 01111101 110110111 1101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; fleurs, l', me are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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