This is an analysis of the poem Paris that begins with:

Prends ma main, Voyageur, et montons sur la Tour. -
Regarde tout en bas, et regarde à l'entour. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXXaXX XXXXbXXXXXbXXcXXddXXXXXXcdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100110111 1011111010 101001010010 0111101111110 101010111010 110011101110 110101010110 111101111111 110111110 111001101 11111111110 110111111110 1111111111110 11111100101101 1110011110110 11101111111110 111011111111 101110110110 11111101110111 11111011111 110111010110 111110110110 1101111111 111101011 111111110111 111111110111 1110001011100 10110100100100 1011011110101 111001001001 10100100101000 1100010101100 11101101110110 1111111111111 11101011111111 1111111011 110110110111 11111101010010 101010111111 11111110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1009
  • Average number of words per stanza: 197
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; regarde, et, ', je, des, de, se, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words regarde, ' are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve is repeated).

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  • summary of Paris;
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  • history of its creation;
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