This is an analysis of the poem À La Mémoire De Zulma Vierge Folle Hors Barrière Et D'Un Louis that begins with:
Elle était riche de vingt ans,
Moi j’étais jeune de vingt francs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXa XabX aXXbb aaXXb XabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 111011 111110 111011 101010 11011110 1111011 11101010 11111111 111111 1110111 10011101 1011110 11111110 111101110 11111111 11111011 1101111 1100110 1111110 11111111 111110 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vingt, en, des, bien, et, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, bien are repeated.
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