This is an analysis of the poem Le Lierre that begins with:
Lorsque la pourpre et l'or d'arbre en arbre festonnent
Les feuillages lassés de soleil irritant, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbbX XXXX XXXb XXXX aXXb XXXX aXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXaX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111100 11001001100 1111101111 011011111010 11111111110 11011111011 10011011001 1011111010 10101011111 01010110111 10111111010 01010110100 110111111111 10110101011 1111101101 1010110101 10110111110 111110111110 11011011011 1100110111 11010111110 10101011010 1110111110 10100011001 101110111111 1011011111000 110111110 011011101001 1101011001 110110101100 1101111010 0101101101 1101010010111 101010111110 11011110110 1011100101001011 10111110010 101101111010 111011011010 101101100110 11111111010 1101110110110 10111011110 10010111011 11011111111 1010101001111 111110101 10111011111 1101011111 110101110 110110101111 100111010011 101111111111 110010101001100 110111011110 1001010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; et, le, il, t, tant, ou, tour, plus, qu'il are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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