This is an analysis of the poem Maintenant Je Pardonne À La Douce Fureur that begins with:

Maintenant je pardonne à la douce fureur
Qui m'a fait consumer le meilleur de mon âge,...

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: 10011101110 111010010011 11011011010 10111111110 100111011010 11110010110 111111001010 101000011111001 11111100110 111010100110 11011110110 1101101101010 110110010010 11001111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; ma, seront are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Maintenant Je Pardonne À La Douce Fureur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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