This is an analysis of the poem Helas Madam that begins with:

Helas madam cel que ie me tant
soffre que soie voutre humble seruant... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011111 11111010 111011010 111110110011 011011111 0110011010 11010101101 111111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, ie, i are repeated.

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