This is an analysis of the poem L'Est, L'Ouest, Le Sud, Le Nord that begins with:
Quand tu marches, le pas rythmé, le long des champs,
Aime à nommer pour te plaire à toi-même ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaX cXXXdX XXXX edXXffXXXX XfXXXfa XX XbfXXXXcXXXaeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,10,7,2,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100110111 1101111111 011101 1111110011 1101110 101011111001 101011101110 100011110011 10101111101 101011101111 1011001100100 11101101 0110011 1101101110 110010000 1111101 1110110111 1010100111 11001110 111111011 01101011 110011111 1001110100 111011010110 110010110110 01110100111 101010111011 111101110001 11001100 11100111 11101101 01000111 11110111 1111110 101110111010 1111101101 110110111011 101011011110 11111011011 11011101010 111110011 11110111 11111101011 1100101110 101111111011 111111111 101111011 11110111011 101011111111 11001101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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; le, les, et, des, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qu'ils, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
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