This is an analysis of the poem Vieille Armoire that begins with:

Dors, fouillis vénéré de vieilles porcelaines
Froides comme des yeux de morts, tous clos, tous froids,...

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: 11010101000 10111011111 100010110100 01101001100 1101101010010 010101110010 1101111101 011011001010 001100011010 100101100110 100101110 101100110011 111111011001 0101001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; de is repeated.

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