This is an analysis of the poem Invocation A La Poesie that begins with:

Nymphe tendre et vermeille, ô jeune Poésie!
Quel bois est aujourd'hui ta retraite choisie?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXXXXXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011 11011011101 10111111011 111010011110 111110111011 111011110 10001101010 1101101110 1111111110 110011110011 1111011110 1000101110 01111110100 111111100100 111011101001 1110111010 1111101100110 101110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 868
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; il is repeated.

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