This is an analysis of To My Books by André Spire.
YOU, you have given me my noblest pleasures,
How many times my lips have kissed you, when…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc abd add debd Xff ecgb edda XfXf XeaeXgXd X
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,4,3,4,4,4,8,1,
- Metre: 11110111010 1101111111 111111 011111 10010101 0101010 111110111110 111111 11110101 1010111111 1001000111 011110010100 110101 110101110010 10110111 1111110100110 1111111 00010010101 1101111111 1100111110 111100111111 11111111 11110011101 1111101111 111111010010 111001010101 110111111100010 101101001001 111111100101 0101111111 110101011011010 110110110011 110100111010 1101010111 1111111000 100101010101 01011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
you, my, more, than, i, now, her, to
Anaphora
for, i