This is an analysis of the poem Pour L'Album De Mme H. Mercier that begins with:
Avant d'écrire un mot sur cette page blanche,
Auprès d'elle, en rêvant, j'ai promené mon œil ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX 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: 011111111 111111011 1111111101 100111101011 111101010111 110110111001 11101111011 1101011110 11101011111 1111111101 10111111110 11111110111 111001011110 1101110010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- 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.
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