This is an analysis of the poem Flammonde that begins with:
The man Flammonde, from God knows where,
With firm address and foreign air ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd cccceeXX ccccXXdd ffgghhhh eXdddddX hhiieegX ddddjjdX eXcckkhh aallXbcc eeccddee eeXheemm hhXhlldX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100111 01111101 01010001 11010001 01010001 11011101 01111101 11110100 01000101 01110101 11010101 01110100 01010001 01010111 11110101 01111100 11011111 11101101 11010101 01010101 11110101 0111100 01110101 01110111 11111101 01010111 11111101 11100100 010011010 010111110 11010101 11110001 010100101 11111000 01000111 01010001 01010101 01010111 11011101 01010110 11010011 11010101 11110101 00110101 01101101 11111101 11010001 11111100 11011101 11011011 01011101 11011101 01100101 11010101 11110101 010101100 10110011 10101101 11110111 11011101 01101111 10111101 01100101 11110001 11110111 01010101 11101101 110100111 11010101 10011101 01100100 11110100 11111101 01010101 0100001 11110111 11010101 11010001 11011101 11111111 11010111 11010111 11111110 11101001 11111111 10110001 10110101 010001011 11011111 01110001 01010100 01011110 110100101 10010101 011011101 01010110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 96
- 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; to, and, of, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, his, and, so, what are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Flammonde;
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