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

Je sais en une église un vitrail merveilleux
Où quelque artiste illustre, inspiré des archanges,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111111110100 111010101100 0111011110 0111111111 011010110 101101010 1111110111100 01111101110 110100111111 110111111 11111110100 111011001110 11111111 101110111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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