This is an analysis of the poem Sisina that begins with:

Imaginez Diane en galant équipage,
Parcourant les forêts ou battant les halliers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXX XXX aXX X Xcad bXec eca aaa X X fcfc ghgh aad ada Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000111010 10011110110 101111100010 1011110101 101111010010 1001011110 11111111100 1101011110100 1110011110 1100010110 11010011010 1011011111 11110111010 11111110010 100 0100100100010 101010110010 110001111001 0101001010 1111110010 1001111001 0111011001 11010101011 101001011011 011000100100 010010110111 011001101101 1011011111 111010010101 010110100 100 1001010001 1001010001 0101110101 0101010001 11101111001 1001010001 1101110001 1101010101 1010010001 1100010101 11011101010 0101010111 11110011010 1100010101 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; les, by, with, her are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Sisina;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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