This is an analysis of the poem A Mademoiselle Louise B. (Ii) that begins with:

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L'année en s'enfuyant par l'année est suivie. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a Xbab cXXX XXXX bXXd bXXX XeXX XXac XXfb X XXXaXX XXXXXf XaXXXX XXXggX XXXXXe afXdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1110011011 11111111101 1111010111 11111011110 011111111101 11010110110 111111110 10101010110 1111110010 11101110 1111111010100 11111001111 1111101111011 01001110001100 11011111101 011011111110 011011111 111010110011 1111101110 1011111111110 1110111110 110101011 111010011110 10100011101 1011001111 11111111101 101111110111 11111111111 1111101111011 0110101011 10011111010111 1101110101 1 1011011111011 1101011110110 101110 1110101101111 111011110 11111 111001011111 1101110111101 11011 1110101101000 10110110111 1111 10011011111 110111011 101110 10111111110 110111101110 110011 1111110111 10110111 11010 11011111111010 11110110 1010 10101010110 0101010110111 11111 1010010110 1111111101 11011 11101011011 1111001111111 010100 110110111111 100011101100 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • 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:

    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; encore, mots, les, ses, quand, il, et, vous, le, sur, te are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words encore, quand are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).

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  • summary of A Mademoiselle Louise B. (Ii);
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  • idea of the verse;
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