This is an analysis of the poem Si Tu Veux Que Je Meure... that begins with:

Si tu veux que je meure entre tes bras, m'amie,
Trousse l'escarlatin de ton beau pellisson ...

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: 111111110111 11000011100 111111111000 11011001111 1110101111 011100010110 11111111101 10101011011 11101111110 110011110110 110011101010 111111011110 1111111110 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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