Une Amoureuse Ardeur by Jean Antoine de Baif: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Une Amoureuse Ardeur that begins with:

Une amoureuse ardeur,
S'elle n'est feinte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXaX XXXX XXbX cXcX XXXX XXaX bXbX XXXX aXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010 111 111101 1011 101110 11110 11011 111100 1111100 11110 111100 1010 101110 101 11101 1100 11011 1011 110011 111 1111111 1010 11011 11110 100110 1101 111101 0110 1111101 1110 11110 111 111101 11100 1111111 0110 010110 111 11110 1111 1101010 1110 11010 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ' is repeated.

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

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

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