This is an analysis of Au Café by Charles Cros.

Le rêve est de ne pas dîner,
Mais boire, causer, badiner…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aaXXXX bXXXXX XXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 010101111 1110100 1111 101100 1111111 1011 11001010 01101110 111 111110 0111110 1110 110110 11011100 111 1101111 111111 1111 1101111 1111110 1110 110111100 110111 10110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Epiphora

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