This is an analysis of the poem Le Mont that begins with:

Ce mont,
Avec son ombre prosternée, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXBXX cXXbXaXXb XdXXXXXXeX AXBXXXXXXc fXXacXXXXXXX XXXXXeXXcXXcXXX XXXXXXeXXcXcXXXXXXX AbXX XXXXXXeeeaXXX XdcXdXafXXXXXXXXXffXXXX AXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,10,10,12,15,19,4,13,23,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 101110 11011010 1100011 101111101 1110011010 110010110 0111111100 11011011 111100101 1101 1001111 101110 111010 111010100 101111101 110011100 111111110 110011101111 1111011110 111001111 1111 1001110011 11111100110 11 101110 11011010 1101011 10111110111 1100111011 100111101 11011010 111111000 0010101101 11111011 11011111110 10 1010011010 111000101111 11100111110 01000111010 1100101111 01011111110 11100111100 011111101100 111011 1101001101 101001011 1011110 11011110 111011010 110011111001 1110101010 101 1011001101 11011101011 1110100011 1100010001 1110 11100 1011111010 1011011 1010101110001 11001111101000 1110110100 1110110011 11101111111 110011011 100010111011 11001100110 01101010110 0110111011 11001110 1111011110 110111111 1011110110 111101011100 1110111110 101111010 111010011 11 1011111010 100111011 111111010 1100100 1110101101 1111010110 1111101100 110011110 1100110110 11001011111 11000111001 101010101101 1111101101101 1011101001 11001111110 01111101000 110111110 111110110 1100101110 111011100 1010111000 101001111100 01010111111 1011001011 11100011110 01101010101 111001111101100 1111011111 110001111 11011001110 1111111011110 11111001111111 111011111100 11111111100101101 1111111101101 110110100 1011101110110 11110011100 0110110010 11 101110 110111010 10100011 0111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 455
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 125
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, de, des, le, me, tout, je, ses, avec are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, elle, le, les, et, j' are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, me are repeated).

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