This is an analysis of the poem La Maison Du Berger (Iii) that begins with:

Eva, qui donc es-tu ? Sais-tu bien ta nature ?
Sais-tu quel est ici ton but et ton devoir ? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXc bXdXXXX XeXeXXe fXfgfhX XXfbfXb XXXXXXX XXXeXXX XXXXcaX XXXXXXX gfXfXXX XXXXXhX XXXiXXX XXhXXXX XXXdXXi XeXXXeX XhXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111110 1110110111110 1111101110 1011111010 101100101001111 1111111111 10010100111 111101011011 1010101110 11101110110111 1010111111101 10011111 110111111110 11111110111 101100111000 1111101110111 111101111100 1011001011 10111100100 11111110100 1111110001 1101111101 1111010111110 01101110111 11111111101010 1011111111 1011111101 11111101111010 110111011100 1111111010 1111110100 11011011001 10101101101 1110101110000 110101111111 111010111010 1100101100 101011100010 11111100 1011101100100 1001100101110 111010111010100 110111111010 110101111 10101110101110 10111110101 11111101101110 111010111110 1101010011110 1100111101 111100011011 11010110100 1111011010 1111110111 111110110110 1111101111101 111111001 111110010110 1101011101 110001111110 111011111101 11110111110 11111111100 111011111010 0111011010 11111011100011 10111011110 11111111111 1101111110 110111111000 1011111010 100011110110 111011111100 11100110100 1110010111 10111011110 11101011011101 111111111110 11111011111111 101111111111 10001110111 11111111010110 1011011010110 1011101111011 111011111110 11110111100 1101110110 1111010110 1110000111 11110011001 111110100110 10110110011 1111111111 101101111 110100111111 111111111010 11101100100 1111001111001 1111111100100 1111111011 10101011010 11111111100 1101101001110 100011110101 111110010 11001011101101 1111011111 111001111011 1111111010 01101101000 101011101100 11010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • 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; tu, sais, de, tout, sans, e, les, la, et, mes, je, qui, dans, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sais, tes, mes, je, mon, dans are repeated.

    The author used the same word ta 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 me, e are repeated).

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