This is an analysis of the poem Où Que Je Tourne L'Oeil, Soit Vers Le Capitole that begins with:
Où que je tourne l'oeil, soit vers le Capitole,
Vers les bains d'Antonin ou Dioclétien,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111111110100 111100110 1111111110 011111011 11111111011 10111101111 1101101101 11111101110011 10101011100 110010101111 11111101 111111100111 11010110101 1111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ou is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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