Poem Analysis of Amour Secret by Victor Marie Hugo for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Amour Secret that begins with:

Ô toi d'où me vient ma pensée,
Sois fière devant le Seigneur ! ...

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Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX cXXX XXXd XefX gege XXXX eXXX XXbe XcXh aXXX fdXX XXXX hXhX XXXX iXiXXihih
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111111 11010010 11110 1111110 1111011 1111111 1100111 10111 111110110 1011010 11110111 1010110 11110110 11111111 0111100 011110 101110 1111110 1111111 1010111 1111101010 11111010 11001010 1011110 11010111 1011111 011101011 10100110 01111010 1110111 11111011 1111010 11111110 111110 1110110 110110 1111101 1110110 1110010 101111110 11011011 110001101 11010010 11010010 10111011 11101100 111011 110010 101111 11011110 1101111 1001111 10101110 10010110 1110010 10100100 1111110 11011111 10101101 10110111 111001000 11111100 11101010 11111010 10111101 111100101 11011011 111111010 1111111 11111 110111110 1111111 111011101 110111010 1111111 00111001 11111 10100111 11010101 1111110
Amount of stanzas: 20
Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 80
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; toi, lui, et, qui, qu'on, le, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, a, et, qu'on are repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase flambeau connects the lines.

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Amour Secret by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

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