This is an analysis of the poem A Virgile that begins with:
Ô Virgile ! ô poète ! ô mon maître divin !
Viens, quittons cette ville au cri sinistre et vain, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX aXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXbbXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,6,12,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 11011111011 111101110110 111101011001 110111011 1111011101 1011010111 10110110111 11111111111 1001111110 111111011 111111111 101110111010 111111001100 1111111 01101010001 1010001101 1011010101 110111011011 11111110001 111111110110 10101111111 11111110001 1111101111 111101111100 10110011110 11010111111 101001010 111111101 110110111101 1011110111 11010101110 110101010110 11110110100 111111011 11111101010 111111110010 111010101000 11101101100 11111110110 110111100 11011111011 111010101101 1110011101 1111011111 10111010110 1100101110 111111110 110111010 11110110110 100110111 11001010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de, et, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same word pour at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, s are repeated).
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