This is an analysis of the poem Songe Agréable that begins with:

Une nuit que le dieu Morphée,
Sur ma paupière comprimée...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXaXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXbXXb XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 111010 10011110 11111111 11011 11101011 0101111 100110 1101111 110111000 10010100 1011100 101001110 10110101 01110100 100111011 111011100 11001110 111011 1001111 1111110 10011100 111001100 111001111 1100101 111101 1101110 1111110 1110001 10100110 11110110 01111010 1001101 111110100 110010100 101111 11110111 110111 10010101 11101100 11101110 111111100 01101010 1111110 111101010 1110100 101001 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, res, tre, es are repeated).

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