This is an analysis of the poem Placet that begins with:
Reine, acquiescez-vous qu'une boucle déferle
Des lames des cheveux aux lames du ciseau,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXX aXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011011 110110110010 111110110110 110110101101 110011111001 11011011010 110011011 110110110010 11010101111 11111001111 1111011111010 111101100111 110011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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, des are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ferle is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ferle at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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