This is an analysis of the poem Barely Disfigured that begins with:
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbXXXXcbcXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110 0110 1110 0110 11010011010 1101001111 1111001010 101001011 1001 0110 10110 1001 011010 1010010 1011 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tristesse, sadness are repeated).
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