This is an analysis of the poem Malheur À Moi that begins with:
Malheur à moi ! je ne sais plus lui plaire ;
Je ne suis plus le charme de ses yeux ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXA bXXXXXXA bXXXXccA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111101 11111101011 1111101111 11001101 11111101110 11001101110 11111101100 101 111010110111 10011011 0110111010 11111111101 10111101011 1110111100 11111010110 101 101011011 1100110100 11111111110 110111110111 1101110101111 11110111110101 1101111111111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; plus, il, de, je, lui are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word moi at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Malheur À Moi;
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