This is an analysis of the poem Temps Perdu that begins with:
I never may turn the loop of a road
Where sudden, ahead, the sea is Iying,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbX dede cfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101001 1100101010 1111101101 11101001110 1100101001 11001101001 1110101101 1111100100 1100111111 1011100111 11111101001 101001001001 01001011011 101011101010 011111111001 100100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; my, as are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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