This is an analysis of the poem Bon Conseil Aux Amants that begins with:

L'amour fut de tout temps un bien rude Ananké.
Si l'on ne veut pas être à la porte flanqué, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXX XXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,24,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101111110 11111111110 1101111101111 1101000111 1111110101100 10111111101 1111101101111 11101111111 1111111010110 110101111010 11101110010 1011001111 1010101110 1101111111 1111101111 11110101111 1101011100 1110111111101 11111101111 111110011010 1111101011 1111111110 1101110111100 10100111111 1111101011011 1111111010010 111010110111 111100011011001100 101010110010 0100110011011 11110110110 1110110111 1111111111111 011011011111 1110111101 10111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; on, de, et, la are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Bon Conseil Aux Amants;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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