This is an analysis of the poem Si Vous M'Aimiez that begins with:
Ménestrel, qui vais par le monde,
N’ayant rien que mon gai savoir,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXAXXXXB AXXXcXcB bXbXcbXB XXXXXXXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 10111110 111011 111101110 11110110 011011111 100110100 11101111101 111011 01101101 1110111 11100010 110110111 1111101 0101110010 11101111101 11101010 11010101 101111 11010100 100101010 1110101111 1110111011 11101111101 1111111 1101110 1101110 11110 111011011 1010101011 11011110111 11101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; vous is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word si is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pas at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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