This is an analysis of Fierté, Pardonne-Moi! by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.

Fierté, pardonne-moi !
Fierté, je t'ai trahie ! ...…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AXBXA XXXaX AXBXA
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
  • Metre: 1101 11111 11111 111111111 11101 110110 1101110 1111 11110111111011 11111 1101 11111 11111 111111111 11101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

fiert, sans

Anaphora

fiert