This is an analysis of the poem Bien, Je L'Ay Dit, Je Le Confesse that begins with:

Bien, je l'ay dit, je le confesse,
Que nul ne te pourroit aimer...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXXXXXbb XXXXXXXX bXbXXXbb cXXXXXXX dXdXXeXX ceXeXXcX XaXaffXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111010 111111010 10111110 10110100 110111101 11101110 10101111 1111011 111111 001110 111110110 11101100 1110011 1001011 111110 1001010 1111010 11110110 1111100 111011100 1100110 101011111 11101110 11101100 11011001 1111110100 11011001 10111000 11111010 111111100 11111101 11011101 110011110110 10100111 110001100 1101110 01100100 111111100 111110110 11111111 1111110 11110110 11011001 111011 1101110 11011111 10111001 111100110 111011010 11111101 011001000 101111010 011111 111110 111111111 01100010 11101110 11100101 11101111 1101011 111010 01111010 0111011 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; je, ainsi, tu, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c'est, de are repeated.

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  • summary of Bien, Je L'Ay Dit, Je Le Confesse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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