This is an analysis of the poem Mes Chants Savent Tout Peindre that begins with:

Mes chants savent tout peindre; accours, viens les entendre.
Ma voix plaît, Astérie, elle est flexible et tendre....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1110111011010 111110110011 1011111101 110010100111 01011110110 11111011110 11110011111 101011111110 00110011110 1011111010 11101101101 1111110110 11011111111 111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 689
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; les, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word soit is repeated.

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  • summary of Mes Chants Savent Tout Peindre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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