This is an analysis of the poem Joies Sans Causes that begins with:
On connaît toujours trop les causes de sa peine,
Mais on cherche parfois celles de son plaisir ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110011 11110100110 111101110 1111011111110 111100111110 11100111010 111010111111 1111101111 11011011000 101010101111000 11011111110 110110010111 011110101101110 10110001111 1111101110 011111011010 111011010 110101101000 1111101110 111100111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; et, ces, un are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ces is repeated.
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