This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Adresse A Geoffrey Chaucer that begins with:
O Socratès plains de philosophie,
Seneque en meurs, Auglius en pratique,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX abacbddeXE fghgaXbdgE fcehXcbXgEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,10,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100 101110110 1001111 1110101100 1100101010 1101100100 1000101010010 11001100 10110100 111011110 10000101 010100111 10101100110 1110001 1010101010 110101010100 1001001101 1001000100110 001010011001 1010010100 110100010 1010111111 01101010000100 1111010 1010101010 011100100101 1110110101 0011001000110 010011101 11101010101 01110111 111001111011 1001110011 1101001110 1010101010 10
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; en, of, you, from are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word chaucer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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