This is an analysis of Les Caresses by Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme.

Les caresses ne sont que d'inquiets transports,
Infructueux essais du pauvre amour qui tente…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AXBXX aaXXX XXXXX cdXcX XdXXX AXBXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 101011111001 10010011011 1001011111 11111111 10010101010 11100110111 110110011110 111111111111110 1101101111100 111101010110 11101111100 100111101100 1111101110100 1111111100011 1111111011 1011101000011 110110101110 1011111101110 111111101111 110111100110 111100111010 10111111011 101010110111 1111110110111 1111111111010 101011111001 10010111011 1001011111 11111111 10010101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

les, tu, plus, vos