This is an analysis of the poem Étrennes Inutiles that begins with:
Ô Juges, mes petits pères,
Vous êtes par trop sévères...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXbXXX XXXXXX XXaXba XcXXXX aXXdXX XXXaXc XXXXXX XXXeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 11111 11110 0111010 111110 101010 1111000 111111 10111011 1110110 11011110 1101110 101110 010001 101110 1111110 111110 11010 1110100 111100 1111111 111110 101101 1101110 1111010 111111 01100 1111011 11101010 11 1101010 111010 0101010 11110110 11111110 110100 11110 1110010 111010 1001011 111111 1011111 1011100 1111010 1010110 1110010 111111 110110 1011010 11111 101010 111011 101110 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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