This is an analysis of the poem Le Poëme De La Femme that begins with:

Un jour, au doux rêveur qui l'aime,
En train de montrer ses trésors,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX bXbX XXcd XXXX XaXa XXXX XXdX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX dXXX XXcX XXXa dXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 1101011 1101011 010111 1010110 1111100 10101110 11010100 11010011 111100 1001011 1111100 1011110 1010110 1110010 1101111 100111 10111100 111001 1101111 110111 110101 11100 10111011 01010010 10110101 110101010 10110011 110100010 110110 101100110 101101 11110010 11111010 1111000 1101000 111101 010101 111110 111101 11100100 111001 1110110 1011010 110100 101110 10011100 111110 1110010 01110110 11110100 1111010 10010010 10001111 01001110 1011110 11111110 1001011 1101111 111110 11001011 1111010 111101100 1110100 11001100 111011 101111 1011010 1110001 11110111 1110111 10101111 11100111 11110111 101111 11110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; de, dans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word en is repeated.

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  • summary of Le Poëme De La Femme;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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