This is an analysis of the poem Âme! Être, C'Est Aimer... that begins with:

Âme ! être, c'est aimer.
Il est....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a XXbcXXXXccXbbbaXbXXXXXddXeXXXXXeXXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,39,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 101 111 110111111111 1010000111010 1111111111101 1101001110 11111010110 11111011111011 1101110011 0111111110111 11111011011 1111011101 11111110111 101111101 100111101010 1101100110 0111111110 111111111 11101011110 1111101111101 100101001101 110111111011 01101001110 1110011110 010010101010 101101111 110110010110101 1011000111110 1111111100 11111111111111 11101111 1111101010 111011011 111011111 111110111 1101110110 111011010100 10111111010 11010111010 101100101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • 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; c'est, il, dieu, la, est, que, le, vous, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.

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

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