This is an analysis of the poem At The Cedars that begins with:

You had two girls -- Baptiste --
One is Virginie --...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab cdccee XXfgXffXehh ggcciiiggg iccjkjclgf mmggccaallnn acacoXm aeaemkkm adXob
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,11,10,10,12,7,8,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 1010 1101 1001 01111 0111010 01001 00111 11111 01011001 1111101 1111011010 1110 11111 111011 11101 111101 011110 111111 111011 001 01111 101 01101 101101 111101 001101 101001 11111 111001 001 11101001001 111001 101101 111001 11001 11101 11111 110010010 1101111 111101 111101 001 11111 001 101 001 111 111 1011111 111 111001 111101 101101 10101011 1010101 111011 1111010 1110 11 101101 11001 00101 1110011 101111 011101 01101 111011 01 1111 1010 111010 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; she is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word he 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 him is repeated).

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  • summary of At The Cedars;
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