This is an analysis of the poem Combats Intimes that begins with:

Seras-tu de l'amour l'éternelle pâture ?
A quoi te sert la volonté,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010101 0111110 1111111110 111110111110 101011 1010101111 1111110 110111101111 11010110101 1011110010 11110111011 111101110 1111110101110 111111001010 10111010 10110110111 1111101 10111110111 110111111111 10110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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