This is an analysis of the poem S'Il Était Vrai that begins with:
S'il était vrai
Qu'une fleur des jardins ou qu'un arbre des prés ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 101110110111 110011 11010011110 11101111 1010110 1110101 1011110101 110111011110 110010 100110 1110100 1101011010 110110111 1001111101 1011111010 1111110101 1101101111011 01100011110 1111101101 11111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; des, dans, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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