This is an analysis of the poem Devant Un Cranach that begins with:

Sous un grand chaperon de peluche écarlate,
Un clair escoffion brodé de perles rondes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXa 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: 11110001010 11100101010 10110111011 11111110 11010110111 100101010100 101111100010 100111110010 110111011010 0101011101110 1101001010 101111110 11010011110 1111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; un, de are repeated.

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  • summary of Devant Un Cranach;
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