This is an analysis of Refuge by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.

Il est du moins au-dessus de la terre
Un champ d'asile où monte la douleur ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XaXXXXXa XXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 10101110011 1110110110 1110111100 101100110 1100111110 1110110110 111111110 1110011111 111110110 1011110001 0111010010 10100101 11011110 11111111110 1010111110 111111011 111100110 1001110 11101000010 11110100 11110110 11000110110 1101111110 11111011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

la, si