This is an analysis of Toi! by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.
Du frais matin la brillante lumière,
L'ardent midi, l'adieu touchant du jour,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXbXXX XXXXXbXX
- Stanza lengths: 9,8,9,8,
- Metre: 011011010 1010101001 111111110 111111010 011011111 1010110101 11111111111 111111011 01 111110100 1010110110 1111111110 1111011 101011111 0101101111 111111010 11 1111010111 1110110110 110111110 1011111011 1010111011100 11111101 111111111 1111111110 11 111111111 111111111011 101101001 111101110110 111110 011111111 111110111 11
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
qui, mes, je
Anaphora
je