This is an analysis of the poem Les Caresses that begins with:
Les caresses ne sont que d'inquiets transports,
Infructueux essais du pauvre amour qui tente...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXBXX aaXXX XXXXX cdXcX XdXXX AXBXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011111001 10010011011 1001011111 11111111 10010101010 11100110111 110110011110 111111111111110 1101101111100 111101010110 11101111100 100111101100 1111101110100 1111111100011 1111111011 1011101000011 110110101110 1011111101110 111111101111 110111100110 111100111010 10111111011 101010110111 1111110110111 1111111111010 101011111001 10010111011 1001011111 11111111 10010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; les, tu, plus, vos are repeated.
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- summary of Les Caresses;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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