This is an analysis of the poem Amour D'Hiver that begins with:

Êtes-vous femme, êtes-vous ange ?
Ou votre nom mentit deux fois,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX abXX XXc XXX d XXXX eXfg XXhX iXXX XdXX jccX XXc jXX hXhX XXXX XXhX XXaX XXXe XXXX XXXX XklX XXXi dXdX XXgX XXXX gXXX XmX XXX fXXX XXXX XXXX XXdX XXXX XXXX aXXXdX XXiXXX iiXdXX XXeXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXgXX NXeXN XXXXX XhhXX XgXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,6,6,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,4,4,4,4,5,6,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,5,5,5,1,6,6,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,3,1,4,1,4,2,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,1,5,5,5,4,4,3,3,4,4
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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011101 11110110 11011111 1111110 111011100 1111010011010 1111111101 111110110 101101011101 11111111011 1001111110 1111111001 100110111001 111101010101 0111111011 1111011101 111111110010 111011110110 111111100110 1111101001111 1110011111 11111011101 111110111111 1111001111 1101111100 1111111110 110111010 11011111011 11010011101 11101111110 1101110101 1 11111111111110 1111110010 1001110010 11111110 11111111111110 1111111100110 011011101 1111110011 11101010110 1111111100110 111111111010 0111110111 110010111 11111111 111111111010 10101111110 11111111001111 1101001011111 1110111011 11111110111 01111111101 101011101 1100101111 111111111101 11100111110 111111111110 10110110111 111111011111010 11110111110 111101111111 0111010111 11101111010 1110101110101 11111001111 01100111101 10111010110 1111110100110 010110111110 1111111111 1101111100 1111111111100 11011110 1110111110 1101011111 11101111110 1010111110 111011010 1110111111 11011110 1111011010 1011010110 101011101 1011111 11111111111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 190
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 634
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; vous, je, les, la, de, d, l, mon, ont, me, un, et, ta, j, est, e, des, c, plus, t, m, qui, que, rien, ne, le, comme, on, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, car, qu, un, mon, bien, tu, le, nous are repeated.

    The author used the same words si, dans, mon, j, je, ce, tu, ne at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, e, pas, tre, me, cieux, s, pris, ve, t, es are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words rir, assez, nue, e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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