This is an analysis of the poem Vieille Ferme À La Toussaint that begins with:
La ferme aux longs murs blancs, sous les grands arbres jaunes,
Regarde, avec les yeux de ses carreaux éteints, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXX XXaX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111010 10101101101 101100111001 11001111110 1111011110 11011110010 01101111011 0101111010 111111001111 1111111110 10101111101 111100101101 11010101011 11010100101 11001100111010 111101100111 11111111010 101111110111 111101101 110011100111 110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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, ses are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s is repeated).
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