This is an analysis of the poem Chanson Des Peintres that begins with:

Laques aux teintes de groseilles
Avec vous on fait des merveilles,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aaX XXX XaX XaX XXX aXa XXXXa XXXX aXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100100 101111100 11111100 10101011 1101101 111111 110101 11110110 10111101 10010100 10011110 0111100 111101110 11111011 10011110 11101110 10011110 1110100 1011011 1110010 11011 1010 1111011010 11110110100 11010101010 1111010111 11011100 1010111100 1011011010 11111010 1010111010 111011110 111000100 1011110110 110100100 1011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; et, on, l, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, je are repeated.

    The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, es are repeated).

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