This is an analysis of the poem Lui that begins with:
Il a bientôt deux ans. Parfois, quand je le gronde,
Il baisse ses grands yeux qu'une larme a ternis ;...
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: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 101111011101 11111101010 111011010100 11111111 1111001101 1101011010 11110011110 111000101111 101101111 010011111011 111111111110 101110111101 01110011010 11111100010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; il is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.
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