This is an analysis of the poem Liane De Pougy that begins with:

Souple Liane de Pougy,
L’autre soir quand vous apparûtes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXba XcXX cXXX XXXa XXdc XXbX XXeX XXXX XXXX eXXX dXdf XXXX XXXX XXXf dXXX XXXX XfXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010 1111100 111110 10110110 1111011 1000010 1111110 1111101 11111010 111011010 10110100 1110101 10111010 110101000 11111100 101111100 100110 11011110 111010111 10011011 11011110 11111100 100111 11101 110111111 1110111 110101010 110010 10111110 11101100 111111 11111111 11010101 111100 10101101 110011 1101100 1101110 110111 101110 1110111 110101010 111111101 1111100 1111110 101001 10000100 1110001111 1101110 011000110 1011110 10110110 11011 10011010 1011010 11110110 1110100 1001101 1111110 10100111 11010011 101101 11101010 111101011 11111110 1000001 1011110 1000110 11011101 111111 10100111 11000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; est, d, vous, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, vous are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Liane De Pougy;
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