This is an analysis of the poem La Colombe Et Le Lis that begins with:
Femme, cette colombe au col rose et mouvant,
Que ta bouche entr'ouverte baise,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111110 1111001 111011100110 111111 1101010111 111111010 1100111110 111011011 1101010111 11010011 1111011110 11101011 11101010110 11001101 11010110110 111101010 10110111010 111011100 10101111110 1111110 11010111110 1101111 0111111110 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; quel is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ni, quel are repeated.
The author used the same word elle at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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