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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