This is an analysis of the poem Tristesse Blanche that begins with:
Et nos cœurs sont profonds et vides comme un gouffre,
Ma chère, allons-nous-en, tu souffres et je souffre....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111110110111 1110111101111 10101001101 0110110111000 11001111100 111111101110 101111101110 110011111110 111000110010 11100111110 1010101101 110110111000 1110111101111 111110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, des are repeated.
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