This is an analysis of the poem Era.M Conseillatz that begins with:

Era.m cosselhatz, senhor,
vos c'avetz saber e sen:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX aXXXXXbb XXXXXXbX XXaXXXXb cXXXXXXX XXXXXXXb XXXb cX X d X bXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,4,2,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010 1101011 1010110 1100100 110111010 10010010 1101100 1001111 10110110 1101100 110110 1101110 1101110 111010 11101111 1111011 1110100 100010100 1101110 1101110 1101100 1111000 1011111 111110 11101110 0101111 1011110 111110 10111110 1110110 1101110 1011111 111101 1111110 111111 111100 1111101 0110010 0110100 1111110 0101111 1010101 1100110 1011100 1011110 0111110 1110110 1111111 101010 1101110 01100101 11101011 11110111111010001011111101111111111010100101100100001001011101 111110111011011100010100110111111111001011011111110101110 101100010110111100100001010101010110101111100001111110011010011011 11101010110101011010011101001001010011001011011101111011010101110101 1110101011011101011011011010111010111010111011001011101101 001011011111011010110100111101101101011111101111001111101010111 10111111110011001111011011101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, i, and, if, in, for, to, me, of, love, my, her, never are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words pois, since at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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