This is an analysis of the poem Amics Bernart De Ventadorn that begins with:

Amics Bernartz de Ventadorn,
com vos podetz de chant sofrir,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXab XXXcXaX dbXeXXX XXXXfXa XXdXXbX cXgXXXX XXb fab gX e X X X bXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,3,3,2,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100100 11100110 11010100 11000111 10111100 10110111 11011110 1110110 11110010 1111101 1111101 111100100 11111101 11001110 1010111 11101110 11111010 1111011 11111100 10110110 1111111 1111111 11011110 01011111 11011001 11001110 100110110 11100111 10111100 1101011 111111111 1111110 11111100 1111101110 11011000 1111110 1101011 1111111111 11100100 11101000 1111111010 1110010 10101100 11011010 11011110 1110010 1111100101 11111110 101010011101010111101000101111000111011001111001010100010111 0110111100100011111010110110110100101011110011110101001010 010010000101010111110010110111111010011111010010011000101010110110011101 01011110010111110101110111100010111101101111111010011101100 0100110110010010011011111010111100101010011100011011010101010 011101011101011111111110101011101011100101101010111011 01101111111111111110 011110110100010101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lo, nos, e, you, to, i, and, it, for, would, be, than, love, of, in, he, us, can, who are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word valor at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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