This is an analysis of El Desdichado by Antoine-Marin Lemierre.

Je suis le ténébreux, - le veuf - l'inconsolé,
Le prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 1110101100 011001110 11101111110 100110110 11101011110 11010011110 111101111 111101111 1111011100110 1101111010011 111111111 1111101010 100111111 110011111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

le, la

Epiphora

e