This is an analysis of the poem Bièvre that begins with:

A Mademoiselle Louise B.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X a XXXbXX XXXXXX XXbXXX XXXXaX XXXXXX X XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXX XaXXbX XXXccX XXXXXX X XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,12,1,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001011 101011010101110 1 0111010010111 10111101 101010111101 1011010101 111001111100 1111111011 110111111110 111010110100 111010101110 111010110111 1111010011 101011010110 1111101111000 11011011101100 1101111111 111101111101 1101101111 110011111101 111000110010 1100011010100 0111001111110 101100011010 1111001001111 1111111111111 0111011110111 1111111110 1011100101111 1111010010 111101101 011111111010 1 111111100 01101101 11101110 10011110 0110011 1111011 11011111 111101 101101 1111110 11101110 11111 1111010 11011110 01110010 11101110 011111 01010011 01001101 0111011 110110110 11111110 11111110 1111100 1 11011110010 010110110100 010110101111 110101111 110011110110 1111101 11111111101 11011011011 1111101110 11100110101 1110110111 1111110011 111010111011 11101111110 1110111100 101011101 10011111111 11100101 10111111 11111111 11110111110 011111111011 111011110110 1111111110 1 11111111011 11111101111 11111111101 10010011001 01011111011 0110011 11110111110 0111010100 1111111010 101111101110 10010011110 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 98
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, et, de, le, les, ve, la, ce, qui, vous, en, au are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ici, et, la, le, ce, 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.

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

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