This is an analysis of the poem Si Les Larmes Servaient De Remède Au Malheur that begins with:
Si les larmes servaient de remède au malheur,
Et le pleurer pouvait la tristesse arrêter,...
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: 11101001110 10101011010 110101110100 11111100111101 11111010110 111011111110100 11111111100 1111100010110 011110110100 10101111110 101111111001 01101111100 01011111010 11110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; le is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
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