This is an analysis of the poem Conte De Carême that begins with:
Un jour donc, de semaine sainte,
Il y a bien longtemps — que trop !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXbXXXXXXXccdXXX XXeXXXXXXXXXaXafXggXXeXXXhXeeXXXXXfiihXXXXb XXdXXcfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,43,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11011011 10111010 11010010 111100 111101111 101110 11010010 111101111 1101101 1111100 11111011 1101111 0110111 11011111111 100111110 111111010 111010111 100111111 01110111 11111100 11111110 111001 0100111 1101111 1101110 1111100 111101110 111100 11100 1110110 1110111 1011100 11001011 11001111 111101 1 11001110 11100111 1001011 1101111 11001110 1101110 101111001 1010110 1100110 10100110 11110110011 111011 11111111 10111011 1011110 11011010 111111111 111101011 01111001 11101 110110 1111010 11011111 11010010 1101110 10111011 11101111 110111 010011110 111001 10111111 1111111 1011010 11111111 10111111 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 789
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, il, je, sept, la, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sept, je are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, moi are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase me connects the lines.
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