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

Vous demandez si l'amour rend heureuse ;
Il le promet, croyez-le, fût-ce un jour....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX XXbX bXXX XaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110110 10101001111 1111100100 111101101110 111101110010 10111110110 111011101 1110110110 101011000 1101010110 110110111 10110010110 110010111011 111111000 111111111 100111010 101001110111 0101101001 111110110 1100111010 1101111100110 11010110111 10101101110 11000110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; tait, c', le, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c', d are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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