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

Quoi donc ! la vôtre aussi ! la vôtre suit la mienne !
O mère au coeur profond, mère, vous avez beau...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXX bcbX XXXX XXXd XXcX XXXe XXcX bXbX XXXX eXXe fXXX XXfX XaXX XXXX gXXg hXXX XXXa XXXX XXcX XXXX bXbi XeXX XXdX XXfX dXXX XXXX bXXe XXhg Xbbb XXXX XXdX XgXX XdXX iXXX XXXX XXXX XXXg XdXd XXXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011111 11111011101 101110101010 101111101110 111001111111 101111111100 01111111110100 10011101111 111100110110 11110100110 110110101100 111101001100 1111111011 111111011 10100111101 111101100 1110110001 111111111 111110101 110110101111 1111001111011 1101001111 10110111101 1101111101 1001111100 1011011100 01110110011 11110101111 11101111100 111110111011 11010111110 1111110001 11011101111 1011011111 1110011111011 11101111 11100111111 111111110 10111011011 10111011010 1111101101 1110110110101 0101111111 111011010 1110110111 1010111100 1011111111110 0110101110 1101010101111 1010001110 1101001111000 111101101 1011111111 0111010111 11010101010 111111110011 1101111111 11010101011 11110101001 11110110101 1101001111110 1101111101 1001011110 110001110 11010011111 1111111110011 110110110011 1101011101 11110111101 111101100110 110111111011 1111001101 1101111011100 111011111111 11011110110 11111110101 111001111 101011111110 110010111101 011011110110 11010110001 10100111110 1111100011 0111101000111 11101111010 1101001010 10110111111110 101110111010 11111110111111 1010010111010 1111111010011 111011010001 111111001 110110111010 1111101101 1111111010010 11111110110 10111011100 11111111111 010111000 0111111101 1101011110 011110110011 11110110101 11101101 11010111110 111101101110 1101101010 1111111011 1101010110 11111011011 11110011110 11001110111 1110111011010 1111101111110 11101101111 1111111110 11111111100 1011111111 111101110101111 11001111100 0111101111111 011111111111 1110011111001 1110101111110 111011101111 101110110100 101100100111 11110011101 11001001010110 11100101101 110110111010 1101001101101 1101000110011 11101111 110110100110 111011011111 111111111111 1011111111110 110110110 1101101110010 110110111110 111111111110 11000110110 111101110011 110110101010 1111100100 011010101010 111101111100 111101111010 1111101110110 11011111011 111111111100 1111011111 110110110111 111101111101 111101111111 1101110111 10111101110 1111011111 11100111110 11101011101 1111010010 111101111 1101101010111 1110011110 1110010110001 110000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 169
  • 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; la, qui, voil, des, e, notre, nous, ton, les, et, de, qu'elle, le, ils, nos, ne, plus, sont, quoi, bon, quand, en, irons are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words voil, nous, et, ils, qui, a, les, quand, o are repeated.

    The author used the same words elle, ils, quand 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 nous connects the lines.

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