This is an analysis of the poem La Grand'Place that begins with:
Les magasins de la Grand'Place
Mirent leur deuil et leur passé, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXXb XaaX XXXX XbXX cXXX XXXX XXcX XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000110 1011111 1101101 11111100 10111110 1101011 10110111 1100101 111011 11011111 110011111 111111 11010 101010 10011000 0110 1110110 111000111 0110111 010101110 11110101 11101110 1100110 1101100 11101111 11101110 01001001 111011 11001110 01111000 11011100 11011 11011110 0101111 1111100 111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; les, leur, du, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tout is repeated.
The author used the same words la, les at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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