This is an analysis of the poem Va Donc, Eh, La Pudeur that begins with:

Était un’ fois quatr’ modèles,
Sarah, Suzanne, Manon,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXcX daXX XXXe XfXX XXXX XXgf XaXa XhXX bXbX XXXd bhXX XXXX XXdX XXcX XXXX XXbX XXge
  • 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: 111110 100101 111010 10111 11110 11011 111011 1111111 110111 11111 111111 1101110 1010110 111010 1111100 1011011 1111101 1111111 1010011 1001110 111110 1110011 1111010 1011110 11011 1001100 101101 110111 11011 11111 111111 1110001 1101110 1011101 11011111 1101110 1110101 111010 111011 111101 1111111 11001 1011110 11110101 1111111 111111 11110101 111110 110110 1101010 1101 11101 111111 111111 011011111 0101110 110110 1111010 1111111 1111001 110110 101111 11111 11111110 110010 111110 11111011 1100011 10101111 110110 1110011 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, que are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words la, il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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