This is an analysis of the poem Premier Remords that begins with:

Au temps où je portais des habits de velours
Eparses sur mon col roulaient mes boucles brunes....

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: 1111110110010 1001111011010 100111101110 111110111111 11110111011 110110110100 111010110111 111010110011 110111101 11111111111 1111010110 100101111111 1111111001 10111100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; des, les are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ves is repeated).

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  • summary of Premier Remords;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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