This is an analysis of the poem Elle Était Pâle, Et Pourtant Rose... that begins with:
Elle était pâle, et pourtant rose,
Petite avec de grands cheveux....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXab cXcb cXcX XdXd XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 01100110 11010111 1111010111 01110110 1111011 111110 110111 1011110 111101110 11110010 1110010 11111111 1101110 1110111 1110100 11010111 1101001 11100111 1111100 11011011 110110 1101110 111110 110101 01111011 11100110 01010010 11111011 1110111 1011110 11011111 10110110 11101010 10010101 111011 01010110 10011111 111110110 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sur, de, et, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sur is repeated.
The author used the same word sur at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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