This is an analysis of the poem Elle Avait Pris Ce Pli ... that begins with:

Elle avait pris ce pli dans son âge enfantin
De venir dans ma chambre un peu chaque matin;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXaXXXbXbXXabXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111111100 01011111110 11100101010101 110110011101 101110110100 1111011011 1101101110111 1011100111111 1110011110 1011001110010 11001110101 111110111 11111110101111 110111110111 1110101111 1011011011 1110011110 11011010110 1100110110 11101111011 111010101101 1001111001 1101001111110 1111011111101 11101010110 1101101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 230
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • 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; et, les are repeated.

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

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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