This is an analysis of the poem Récurrence that begins with:

Enchanteurs et sorciers, Mantegna, Léonard !
Des sourires de femme apparus dans les Louvre...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 10011010010 1100011001110 11111111111 110111110110 111110011001 11010100100 110110101100 1101101101 101111000 11001001101100 11111110110 11110110010 111101110100 1111111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, de, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ces is repeated.

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  • summary of Récurrence;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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