This is an analysis of Joies Sans Causes by Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme.

On connaît toujours trop les causes de sa peine,
Mais on cherche parfois celles de son plaisir ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110101110011 11110100110 111101110 1111011111110 111100111110 11100111010 111010111111 1111101111 11011011000 101010101111000 11011111110 110110010111 011110101101110 10110001111 1111101110 011111011010 111011010 110101101000 1111101110 111100111111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

et, ces, un

Anaphora

ces