This is an analysis of the poem Ah! Je Les Reconnais that begins with:

Ah! je les reconnais, et mon coeur se réveille.
O sons! ô douces voix chères à mon oreille!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXbXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXccXb XXbXXXXXddXXdXXXXXXXbXXXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,26,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100111111 111011110 111011110110 111011111101 1111010110 110111110110 11000110011 111111110010 100101101 101111111111 111110111101 1111100011110 111110110010 01010101110 11111101111110 1111111110 101011111110 1110100110 1111111111010 111011110011 1110111001100 111101100100 110110111010 11010110011 1101010010 11010001010 101010111010 11101001110 111110100 11100110101 11111101010 11101111110 1111011111 0111101011101101 101010110010 111101111001 111100011101 1101001110 111110110101 01001111010 1101011001 10010101111 11101111010 110111110110 1111010110 111100110 1011111111001 11110011010 1101110100 111111110110 1101001100 101001111111 101110100110 1111111010110 110101101 1111111100110 1001011111 111101011 111010110111 11111011110 1110110011 11111110 111110111 11101011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 997
  • Average number of words per stanza: 182
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; vous, mon, o, et, les, je, vois, de, le, p are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, soit, par, partout are repeated.

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

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