This is an analysis of the poem A La Gloire Du Vent that begins with:

- Toi qui t'en vas là-bas,
Par toutes les routes de la terre, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXb XXXcX daeb XXXeXeXX XX XXXXXXaf XX XXXXXXXX XX XeXXXXcX fccfcXXXXcXXXX XfXbXcaXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,8,2,8,2,8,2,8,14,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 11011011 1101101 11111111 1011110 111111101 10111011 11111101111 010111001 010111110 0101101110 01111010 1110111010 011101 101101 101101 1110001111 1010111011010 10111100011 101111111100 111001010111 1010110011010 1111111001 101100111000 101111110 110111000110 10101101001 1010111101010 10010101010 110011100100 0110110110 1011001111110 11101111110 11101111101101 11111 10111011110 01101111111 101011111110 10101111111 1011001111010 01111101010011 11110101100 1111101110 111011011100 01111101 0101101110100 11111101110 1010101101101 100101011010 1101100111 110111110010 11101111101 10111101110 111010011 1011011 11101 11001100 0101001111100 1111101011010 1011110111 101111110100 10 11101110111 111111110100 11000111 1111011111 11101011 11001111101110 11101011110 110111101 01 1111011110 1011 11010111011100 010011101111 10111111 10111111010 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • 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; vas, et, le, vent, de, un, les, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, avec, il are repeated.

    The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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