This is an analysis of the poem Bohémiens En Voyage (Gypsies On The Road) that begins with:
La tribu prophétique aux prunelles ardentes
Hier s'est mise en route, emportant ses petits...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXa b cdee afga hbX Xfe X f ibbi afaf eef jjf c a aeae gbXb ffe kke d X aaee ajdX hbj hdj Xj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101100100 101111100110 1111101110 011011100100 1111111100 011100111110 100101111000 10101110100 01011100010 110010010110 1111101100 11001011001 1011001100110 101001110 10100 010001110110 1111100110 111110011101 010101001001 011011011010 011010111110 010010011010 101001110010 010001001001 100111110101 10110010010 101010101001 011100110101 001001001010 010110100 10101 0101110101 0101110001 0101010101 0101011111 0111010001 11011111110 1001111001 01001001010 1001010101 1101010101 011010111 01010101010 01110001110 0101010101 0101110 010 111101010101 010110110101 011111000111 010001001101 011100110100 010101001101 110001101101 110111001101 110111010101 010011000101 110110011101 0100010010101 010110110011 010000010101 0101110 100100 0010100101 101110110110 111010001101 011101001001 0111111011 01101011110010 1001111101 010110100 1010001001010 11010001 10111110 110101110010 1001011100001 00101000010010 0101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, le, their, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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