This is an analysis of the poem La Liberte that begins with:

UN CHEVRIER, UN BERGER
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  • Rhyme scheme: a A XX A XX A XX A bXXc A XcXXdXXXXX A XX A XeXfX A XXXXXfXfX A XXXXXb A XgXX A hXXXX A XXgXi A XXXdaXdXcXXgXXXfXX A ffddjXXacX A XdXXXXXX A jXcXjjXhXXXX A XXXffX A XXXXXX A XXXjXX A hXXXXXXXXh A XXXiXX A XXXXXX A XXXXXjXX A eXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,10,1,2,1,5,1,9,1,6,1,4,1,5,1,5,1,18,1,10,1,8,1,12,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,10,1,6,1,6,1,8,1,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000110 01000 101111110111 01101100011 010 1010100111110 011101111010111 01000 1110111111111 110101111110 010 11111111110 1011011011 11111011101 111110111001 01000 1101011111 111010111101 11110110110 1111110100 10110111001 111100110010 1111111110 1111111110 1011111101000 10111110100 010 11001111000110 11110 01000 1111010 011110011010 1111111110 11110111001 110110100110 010 111111001 1111111010 11110111110 110101110100 111111011 111111011111 101100110100 111111111111 11110 01000 1111111 011000110111011 01001011101 0111001011 1110101 11110101100 010 11001101111011 100110111101 11010110111 111110111010 01000 111111011011 1111110111 1011101110010 11001011001100 101001110011 010 1101111111110 11010101110100 111110110110 1110101101 11111101111011 01000 1110111110 11110110110 110101111110 1001101001 11011011010 1001010010 110010111111 10011111101 11111101111 11001111011 11011110110 01111010001 010100100110 100111010 11111111110 1110111111 11011101110 10111110100 010 11111101011 11111011111111 1111101110010 11111110101 11111111001 11101111111 11011111111 1011111110010 011111110011 111001111110 01000 010110111110 111111110100 10111110110 111111011010 1110111111 1111111110 111111111100 1110101011010 010 1111111110 110110111100 11100101011 11100101110 1110100111101 111110111101 1111011101100 110110110111 1111101011100 1111111001100 111001101000 11110110 01000 101001111000 10111101100 10011010110 1111110100101 011011111010 111001110100 010 111011110110 111111010 1101010101100 1111111111100 1111111111111 111111111111 01000 11110111001 1111011101 111111110 1111001110111 111011111111 1111111111010 010 111100101011 11111101011 111110100110 11011101110 11011111100 111000111111 1111101111 011111111111 11101110011 10010111101 01000 111110011110 1011001101 110010101000 01101101010 10101101101011 11011101111 010 1111010110100 11100111100 11011110110 11011111110 110011111111 100110100110 01000 101001101 011101110110 1111111011 10110110111 10101011111100 011011111111 0111100110 1111110110 010 011111011111 1111111101 011010110011 11111101101110 110111011010 110110110111 11111101110 11110111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 49
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 186
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; le, de, et, moi, les, il, la, est, je, ils, si, pour are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tu, voil, de, le, en, et, je, pour, il are repeated.

    The author used the same word le 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 jour, es, bres, e, pare, pas, re, tre, sage are repeated).

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