This is an analysis of the poem Ce Qu'On Entend Sur La Montagne that begins with:
Ô altitudo !
Avez-vous quelquefois, calme et silencieux, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXXXXaXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XabXcXXX XXXbXX XXXXcXXXXXXX aXXXXXXXbbXX XXXX XXaaXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,16,8,6,12,12,4,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000 10110011100 111011111 11110111010 10110110101 1111111100 111001011 10110100111101 1110011111 101011101110 1111110111 10100110110 11101111110 11101110110 11101111010 11010010100 1111011111100 111111100 10110110110 11100100110 11100111001 111101111100 10100110100 100111110111 100110111101 11110111 1101010110 011001110 1111110110 1101011001 101111111 11110001011 11111111 011111101001 11011011000 1111100111010 1111101111011 11011101110 1111111110101 11100111110 11101011 111110110111 11101111111 11111110100 1011101100 1011111001 11110110 1101000111101 10001110110 110011111110 1110101110110 1111011011 10110100111 1111101101011 11101101101 100101011 11111010110 10111110 1101011101 1011111010 1001011001 110011110 10110001010 1010111111 01100111111 10111111110 111111110 101111010 111001110 10101010 1101011100 10111011011 110101111 111101010101 11111010011 1110111011 1111110111 11111001010110 11111010110 11110111101 11001011111 11000111010 0101101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 439
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; et, le, dans, la, qui, comme, de, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word comme is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve, es, me are repeated).
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