This is an analysis of the poem À Ma Femme, La Veille De Notre Mariage that begins with:
Hélas ! ma douce amie, elle fut bien ardue
La route que sans toi j'avais à parcourir ;...
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: 111101111 1111110100 1011101100110 110111101 1011011010 110011110 11111110101 11101011010 11101011011 101110001 1010110111 1110111011 111110110111 11111111010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- 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.
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