This is an analysis of the poem Travel Papers that begins with:
Au silence de celle qui laisse rêveur.
—René Char...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXX bc dce dfe X cXe ge cdcdfgg fe Xbcee gX ggeddfbX hhgdb ee dXei Xci ijea dkc kabce gg lj Xf cclcgei cbXj cXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,3,3,1,3,2,7,2,5,2,8,5,2,4,3,4,3,5,2,2,2,7,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11001111 11 11010001 0110110 01101010 010101 111010110 01001001 10010001111 1111011 110001 0011000101 10101010 0101 10010001000100100 1001101 10110101 101100011 1101 111 11011 11010 0010110 101101 110110 011001 10101 11010 10011010101 0101110100 101011010 1001 0010101 110110100 0010001001 11010111 1101101 111011001 10100 0101001 1010101 1011110 101010 1010010001 0010101010 111110100 00100101 110110 1001011110 11010011010 01101001 101000111 0101011111 10110101011 0111 10111 0101101 0101 110101001001 111011101 1100111011 11111101 100101 11011 01001001 11001111 01111 0110111010 111110011 11101110101 10001010101011 1101011111011 11011011010 011001011 110111011 010101110 011011001 001011101 01110010010 10101111 10111101111 111011 0010101 00101 100111110 010010010 111101011 11101001 11010010011 1010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 93
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word road at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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