This is an analysis of the poem Prière that begins with:
Ah ! Si vous saviez comme on pleure
De vivre seul et sans foyers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX babX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 0111110 10010110 1100 11101111 1111101 1100011 1110 11101110 111111 11100111 111 111011111 10111010 110011111 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous is repeated.
The author used the same word si at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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