This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Des Mauvaises Personnes that begins with:
Qu’on vive dans les étincelles
Ou qu’on dorme sur le gazon...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXA XaXXaXXA XXXXXXXA X XaXA
- 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: 1111100 1111010 11111110 11011100 11100 1100100 10011010 11001110 10110100 01001010 10111010 101111100 11011010 101111100 11011100 11001110 11100100 1101010 111101100 110111100 10101110 111011010 101111011 11001110 10 1110100 01100110 111111000 11001110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, elles, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elles, et are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word raison at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase elles connects the lines.
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