This is an analysis of La Confession by Hégésippe Moreau.

Quoi ! tu l’as dit, plus d’amours à ta suite !
Quoi ! tu voudrais, t’effeuillant sous la croix,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XX XXXX aXXXXXXX XXXXXXXbb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,2,4,8,9,
  • Metre: 11111111011 1110100111 1111011 0111111111 11111010 11110101011 10101111 1001100110 1011011000 1110110100 10110110010 111010110 11101111 011101110 101111011 1001100110 1111101010 111100011 11010101 111011011 10111111 100110011 1110111111 101010111 111011111 111110010 1111011 111011010 11101111 100110011 11010011 10111100 1011110110 1101100110 111001011 1011110 1110100111 1001111001 11111001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 41

Repeated words/phrases

vous, de, l

Anaphora

quoi, , souvent, mais

Epiphora

, nous

Anadiplosis