This is an analysis of the poem A Petite Jeanne that begins with:
Vous eûtes donc hier un an, ma bien-aimée.
Contente, vous jasez, comme, sous la ramée, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXXXXXXXX XXbXXXbbXXXXXXXXXXXc XXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,20,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011111 101101111 110111100101 110111100110 010100111011 111011111110 1110011111111 11110100111 11011111111 111101111010 11101011101 111110111 11110111 10011010001 111111111 11101111110 11110111 11101011 11111111110 111110111100 11111111 10111011 110011100101 11111101110 111111110 1111011110 111111111111 110101111111 1110111111110 1011111110 1111111100 0111111111110 111111111011 1010110111001 01101100101 1111010011 11011111100 11110110100 11010111110 1101110111 111111010 111010101110 11111101111111 101110101101 11101110011 11111110110 101110110001 11111011111 1010101011 11010100101 01001111101 110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 845
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, votre, re, et, vous are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vous, et are repeated.
The author used the same word ah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, re, suis, tes, sombre are repeated).
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