This is an analysis of the poem Mon Ami, Le Paysage that begins with:

J'ai pour voisin et compagnon
Un vaste et puissant paysage ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXAB XcXd eeXX XXXX XXXX XfXX XXAB XeXg XXhX XXgg iXXX XjXX XXAB XXXX jcXX XXiX XXXX XXXX XXAB XcXX XXXX XXeX fXjX Xbbj XXAB XiXd XXXX XXXX XXXX ejXX XXAB XhXX XXXX XjjX eXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100 1111010 11111110 10010110 111110110 10111111 10001110 1011111 1011111 11000111 010110110 1101110 11111 1110100 1111011 11110100 11101110 1100111 0110111 1011110 101011110 10011001 110110 01111010 11011100 1111010 11111110 10010110 1101101 1011011 1100110 1101011 100110110 1111011 0101001 11100100 111110100 110011 1111011 1011111 11101011 1011110 11101110 1111110 100111110 1101011 1111010 10010110 11011100 1111010 11111110 10010110 1111111010 11101011 0111100 111001100 011110 1111111 1101110 10111100 11111110 11101110 1111011 1111100 11111011 11011 11110 101101111 111111 111111100 110101111 1111111 11011100 1111010 11111110 10010110 1110111010 1111101 10100101 111010000 110111100 1111111 1110011110 1100110 111010011 10011111 11111010 1111111 11101101 111111011 11101011 111111 111111 11001011 1101111 10111111 11011100 1111010 11111110 10010110 11110111010 11001011 11111111 111111010 11101111 1011010 111101110 111110 111101110 111101 10011100 111111 1111010 01100111 110011010 10111111 1111111 1111101 11011110 11101110 11011100 1111010 11111110 10010110 1011111100 10101011 1011011 10111010 1101110 111011 11111010 101111 1011110 10101101 111111111 11101111 11101 10111010 1011111 011
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; et, le, les, toi, la, tre, que, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    The author used the same words un, je, quand 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 e is repeated).

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