This is an analysis of the poem A Versailles that begins with:
O Versaille, ô bois, ô portiques,
Marbres vivants, berceaux antiques,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabX XXXbXX XXXXXc XXXdXX XXXeeX XXXXXX XXcXXc XXXXXX dXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100 10101001 1111111100 0111111 11110111 11101110 101111100 111111110 1101010010 11011111 1100111100100 10101010 111100100 110110010 10111011101 10101101 11010011111 10010111 1100110 1101110 11111011010 111001 1011101110 100111 1001001 1110011 11110011101 110111111 0111011100 1101010 111111 1111111 1101110101111 111111 111101111 01111001 11111010 110011010 1111111001 111001 110101011111 110111111 1111110 11101 11001111100 11111010 101111110010 1010111 111101 1111100 101011110 011110 110011110 1011110 110110100 110111100 1111100001 1110110 111001001010 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, tes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word qui is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
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