This is an analysis of the poem Ballade De La Ruine that begins with:
Je viens de revoir le pays,
Le beau domaine imaginaire...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaX bXXbXXaX XXXXXXXX X XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 01011000 110101 11010110 1011110 111111110 111101 111011 1101110 101101 10111010 10011010 1001101 11111 1101111 111011 11101010 11011110 1101111 10010101 1111010 0111101 101111 111011 10 1101011 1011110 11001111 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; s, l, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word s at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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