This is an analysis of the poem Elle Était Déchaussée, Elle Était Décoiffée... that begins with:
Elle était déchaussée, elle était décoiffée,
Assise, les pieds nus, parmi les joncs penchants ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 10111101110 111011111111 11110111110111 1110001011 111111110 11110111101111 111110111010 1100111011 1110011101 1111101010 11110101111 11100100010 111101111101 1111010110 11011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; e, les, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word elle is repeated.
The author used the same word elle at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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