This is an analysis of the poem Dixième Anniversaire De Mariage. À Mme *** that begins with:

Voici pour vous, Madame, un bel anniversaire,
Car c'est dix ans de calme et de sérénités,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 101110111000 111101101 11010111101 11011011111 10111011101 100110111 010110111111 11101011111 011101111110 10011111000 111101111 11010111101 110110111011 101010111101 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; ans, dix, de, la, et are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Dixième Anniversaire De Mariage. À Mme ***;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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