This is an analysis of the poem Devant Deux Portraits De Ma Mère that begins with:
Ma mère, que je l'aime en ce portrait ancien,
Peint aux jours glorieux qu'elle était jeune fille,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX 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: 111111111010 1111010111 011001100111 11101010 1111011011111 111101110 10101011010 1110101111 1011101111110 11101111010 011011110110 1101111110 10111101110 1101101011110
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word ma at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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