This is an analysis of the poem À S. E. Lady Aberdeen, À L'Occasion De Son Départ. that begins with:

Vous partez ! ― C'est la loi du pauvre genre humain :
Nul lien que le temps ou le destin ne brise....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa aXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 110111011010 111011010111 11110101111 01010110001 110110100010 110111001 101010111 11111011011 1111111111 1111001110 111100110110 111100111110 11101110101 10111100101111 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; le, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word d is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines brise is repeated).

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