This is an analysis of the poem A L'Amour that begins with:

Reprends de ce bouquet les trompeuses couleurs,
Ces lettres qui font mon supplice,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa bXXX XXbc bXdX XXXX Xeec XeeX XXXX bXXX XXXX dXXX XXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101110010 11011110 11011110 11101111011 11111110 1110110010 110111111 1011110 11011111011 111111111110 0111100001110 110111010 11111010110 1111101 1111010101 1101101101 111010100111 111110111 111100100101 101111101011 10110110010 11011110 11011110 11101111011 01111111011 11111110110 11010110001 110100101 10101011100 110111101100 1101001110 111101100 11101110100 111011110 1110110110 101110 1010111101111 1111101 11110101100 1111011110 11111101010 111010110 11011100010 11011110110 11111101011 11111010010 1101110111 111011 11110011111110 11111011110 1101001101011 111011111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; que, je, quand, tu, voudras, de, il are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of A L'Amour;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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