This is an analysis of the poem La Ferme that begins with:
A voir la ferme au loin monter avec ses toits,
Monter, avec sa tour et ses meules en dômes ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX aXX XaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011111101011 101011111011 111010101010 10110111101 0111111011100 10110111011 1111001110 11111100100 11101101101 11011011011 11000111100 110101111110 11111011011 101101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ses, avec, et, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ses is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Ferme;
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