This is an analysis of the poem La Synagogue that begins with:

Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffés de feutres verts le matin du sabbat...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101101100 10101010010 1110111001 1110111010011 11110011110101110 1101011110110111 0111111001111110 100101101100111 11100101111110 101111010110010 11100011011011 1011010110101011 101111101111 110011011001110 101100111100 100110100101 1100110111111 101110110111110 1111011010110001100 100111010100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, la are repeated.

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