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

J’aime tes yeux, j’aime ton front,
O ma rebelle, ô ma farouche,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011 1110110 10111011 1110100 1011101 1011111 1110111 11011010 10111011 01110110 11111011 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; j, aime, mon are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.

    The author used the same word j at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Chanson D'Amour;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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