This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet De L'Amour Sans Phrases that begins with:

Et puis l’Ennui nous vint qui fana sous ses doigts
Notre Amour, cette fleur absurde et printanière...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111011110111 101011101100 1101101100 11110010111 1111111101 1111110110 11111111110 1011101111111 10011101110 11111101111110 1111110111100 1100111101 101110111110 11011101000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, mes are repeated).

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  • summary of Sonnet De L'Amour Sans Phrases;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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