This is an analysis of the poem En Cossirer E En Esmai that begins with:

En cossirer et en esmai
sui d'un amor que.m lass'e.m te, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXXXX baXXXXXX XaXaXXXX XXaaXXXX b X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001110 101101101 1111111111 10111111 110111110 11100110 1111100 10011100 1111101110 11101001 1001111101 1111101 11011101 100101100 1111100 11101011 11110010 10110111 11101110 11001101 11001110 11110010 1110010 11111100 11001100 1011011 1010011111 11011100 10110110 11001010 1111110 10111100 0101011101001111111111110111010101001011111010100101111001010001011110100 0101011111111110111111110101111111101101111010101101011100111100011001011011111111101001101011101011110111100111111011110101101101101 111110010010011011011111110011111101111010111011101101101101110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; m, en, no, me are repeated.

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