This is an analysis of the poem Portraits À Deviner that begins with:
Des yeux trop clairs, des yeux pervers,
Indéfinissables, gris, verts,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXaXXX XXXXX bbXbXX XXaXX aXX XXXXXaXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,5,6,5,6,5,3,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 1000011 1111100 1101101 11110 1010110 1111111 111 11111 10111111 111110 111010 1111100 10011 0101110 0110110 111111110 1111010 111111 111011 1100011 101011 1 1111 111010 11010100 1111011 10111111 1101010 1101111 1111011 110111111 10111 1110 1111100 111101 1111111 1001101 11101 11001100 1011101 111100010 110110 1001000 1111010 110111 11011011 110010011 11101011 01011 1010111 1100111 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; oh, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines las, ne, tise are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase on connects the lines.
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- summary of Portraits À Deviner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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