This is an analysis of the poem J'Avais Froid that begins with:

Je l'ai rêvé ? c'eût été beau
De s'appeler ta bien-aimée ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXX XXXXXXaX XbbXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 0100111 1011110 11101010 1111010 1111101 111101110 11011110 111110111 11110110 11100110 1101111 11011110 1110111 11111011 10100111 11111111 10111011 111111111 111111011 1010101 10101100 1101110 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, de are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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  • summary of J'Avais Froid;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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