This is an analysis of the poem Quatorze Vers À Victor Hugo that begins with:

Ayant tout dit ayant donné toutes les preuves,
Ayant tout remué, mers, monts, plaines et fleuves,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaa XXX bbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 101110110110 10110111110 11110100010 101010110010 0111100100 1101001100010 110100101110 11011111010 1110110111011 01011111101 11101111111 11110111011 11010010111 1111010111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; ayant, te, en are repeated.

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

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

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