This is an analysis of the poem En Cour D'Assises that begins with:

Je suis l’expulsé des vieilles pagodes
Ayant un peu ri pendant le Mystère ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXX bbX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11110110100 101111001 11011110111 111010011 10111111 111001111 11111101 10111110 1100111100 1101110010 01111011 110101 10100111011 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word odes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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