This is an analysis of the poem Le Mauvais Moine (The Bad Monk) that begins with:
Les cloîtres anciens sur leurs grandes murailles
Etalaient en tableaux la sainte Vérité,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX A bbcb defg Xgh agb X a ifif djdj Xfd fdf X X kekg kgXX eXb ffb c A fdbd flbl lfe egb Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101110100 100101111 11010110100 101100110 1111011001100 1110110111 101100011100 1001110100 110111011010 10101110110 11001101110 1101101111 0100100111 001011110011 011 100101011111 01010101010 1100101110010 001010011010 011010011010 111111101001 10010100011 10110110100 1100111100 110110100 100101011010 1101111101 0010100011100 010011101011 010110100 0101 0101011101 0101010101 1111010011 0101110011 011100101011 11011101001 0111111001 1111010101 1101110100 0101001101 1001010101 1101101101 0101000111 1011111011 0101110 0101 0111010101 1111011101 1101010101 0101111100 1101011111 01001110100 11010011101 0111010000 1101110101 1111011101 1111011101 1101111101 0011000101 1111110111 0101101011 011 10110101001 10010101 10110001010 1010110101 0011111001 111010010101 11010101001 1101110111 1100111001 101001101101 101101001001 11011011 01010001100 01011101011 0101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, of, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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