This is an analysis of the poem Aveu D'Une Femme that begins with:

Savez-vous pourquoi, madame,
Je refusais de vous voir ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010 11100011 11111101 1101010 010111110 10111100 1000110 111110110 1111111 1110110 11101101 1111100 111011010 111111 1110111 111110110 11110 1110010 1101011 110110 1011110 111100 111111101 111110110 1101100 11111 1111111 1111010 1111111 1010110 111110 111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

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  • summary of Aveu D'Une Femme;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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