This is an analysis of the poem Aubade De May that begins with:

Mere d'Amour, Venus la belle,
Que n'as tu mis en ta tutelle ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XaXXXX XXXXXX XXXXaX XXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011 11111110 01101100 11001111 11111011 01101100 11110010 10110110 1111111 1101111 1011010 1111110 1011101 11110 11010001 111100 01011110 1011110 1100010111 10100111 10010110 10101011 0111111 1111011 10111100 0111110 10110110 1011110 11111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; le, et, que are repeated.

    The author used the same word may at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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