This is an analysis of the poem Le Premier Arbre De L'Allée that begins with:

Le premier arbre de l'allée ?
- Il est parti, dites, vers où, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXaXX XbXXcXXaXaXXdXXcXXXXXXXXXX XXbXaXXXXXXaXd aXbXXdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,26,14,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001101 101101011 10111111101 111011101 11010110 1101100 11111110 0110111 111111100 1110011101 010110110010 00110111010 101011110 1110 1011111100100 110101 1010 11101110 110001101011 111001111 101001110111 1011011011 11111001111 1101010101 1101011110 1111110110 11001111101 11101010111 1101011011 1101010110 11010111101 1110110010 11011111111 1101011010 1110101010001 100111111000 111010010100 1110101101010 1101111111 1111001110110 1110111000110 1011001111011 101010000111 100100111010 11001011110 111100101100 111101111100 11011011000 1100111110010 010111011 1101101010011 1110101001110 11101011 11010110011101 11101011 1111001110100 1101010 11111111111 10100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; et, il, de, les, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, il are repeated.

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

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