This is an analysis of the poem Les Meules that begins with:

Comme des tentes pour les blés
Les grandes meules fraternelles...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX XbXX XbcdXXeXaXXaXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX cXbX aeXX XXXX XXXX XXXXab bXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,16,17,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 110101000 111001011110 110111010 11001001 111111 011010101101 1101110 1111110 111010110 101110101110 1110110 11011110 1111111 11101111001 1111110 101011011010 1110110111 011100111001 11111011111 1011100011000 1110111101 10110111101 10101111110 01010101011 11100110111 11101110111 1111101100 111010111011 1011100111110 11110110100 11111111100110 11110111 1101010 11110011 1011011 100011111 1011010 1110111 10101100 11110111110 11011011 1111110 1010110 1110 011101 011101 11111010101 10110010111 11101011101 10111011 111111101011 111101110 111111111 111111010 11110111111011 1111110 111111111011 101011001 1011110101111 101101100 010111110111 11101100 111001010111 1101111 110011110011 011010 1111101110 0111110 110011101110 111001101110 11101111100 11011111110 10101111110 101101111 0110011111011 111101110100 101111110101 11010011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; les, et, le, ils, leurs, leur are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words les, ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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