This is an analysis of the poem A Vénus that begins with:

Ayant après long désir
Pris de ma douce ennemie ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXaXXXXXXXbXXXbXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 101110 1010010 110111 1111110 1111110 1110100 1001110 111111 1011101 0111111 11111011 11111 101111 101100 0111110 1111111 1111110 101011 1111011 111110 101101 11110 11111 111110 011110 11110110 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 793
  • Average number of words per stanza: 150
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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