This is an analysis of the poem S'Il L'Avait Su that begins with:
S'il avait su quelle âme il a blessée,
Larmes du coeur, s'il avait pu vous voir,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcbc XXXaXXdc XXXXdcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 1001110111 111111011 010011010 1010111100 1010101000 0110111100 11011 110111110110 111010111 111011110 1110111010 11110011 11101111100 111010111 11011 1101111111100 1100110011 1010111010 101111101 1011111011 11111100 101111111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, t, il are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word s'il is repeated.
The author used the same word s'il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word su at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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