This is an analysis of the poem Gretchen La Pâle that begins with:
Elle est de la beauté des profils de Rubens
Dont la majesté calme à la sienne s'incline....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX 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: 101011110010 111011110 11001101100 110010101110 110111100101 1011110100 1110101100 1011010010 1011011101 110100101111 111011010 11111011111 11001111 101011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, la are repeated.
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