This is an analysis of the poem La Déesse that begins with:
Quand les trois déités à la charmante voix
Aux pieds du blond Pâris mirent leur jalousie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXX XbX XbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111101 1101110110 1011111111 111100010011 10101111011110 11101111101 111001110 11110110111 1110110110 10000010111 110110100011 11110101 111010101 101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; et is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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