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

Ô vous l'âme profonde ! ô vous la sainte lyre !
Vous souvient-il des temps d'extase et de délire,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX bbXXcX XXXXXd XaXXeX XXXXXX bXXXcX XXXXXX cXXXXX XXXXdX XXXXeX XaXXeX fXfXXf XXXXXX XXXXXX XXfXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111 11011110101 11110 1011101100100 110111110111 111010 1110011101110 10110010100 111100 01111111111 11111001101 101011 0110111101010 111110101110 1101010 11111101011 11101001100101 110111 110110110010 1110100101111 11101 10111011011 111010001111 10101 10101111111 110100111 111010 110100110011 101100110011 101101 111110110111 101101011 11111 010111100110 111101111110 111000 10110110010 1011110111111 111111 1111111110 110111111100 11010 01111100111101 1010111100 11100 111100111010 11110010111100 110111 10011010111 11101111 11011 1111111011101011 111111011111 10110 1101101010111 1101111111 01010 0111110101 11111001111 011111 111110011110 11011111111111 11111 111010111 11110110111 111111 1001110011011 11101011110 110011 11110011001111 111101111101 110111 1101001111110 1111110101 11110 1110101111110 11010111101 0110110 1111111101 11111101101111 1111 1111100101011 1010111101100 11100 1101111101 101111101110 111101 1101111111111 110111110111 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; vous, des, et, la, le, son, dans, vos, m are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vous, et, un are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rable, tre, ve, re, me are repeated).

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