This is an analysis of the poem Night Litany that begins with:
O Dieu, purifiez nos cceurs!
Purifiez nos coeurs !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX abcaab cddcB dXcce CXXXfX XdbccXbB CXXBcfcbb beBbeda XcXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,5,5,6,8,9,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011 10011 101111101 01010 101000110 111101 0100100001101 0101 111110 111011 10100 1110010101 11010 11001 1110 10101 1111001 01010010 11010 10011 10011 1111 010001100 100110 10100011 011011 010110010 00110 1010100 00110110 111011 11010 11010 10011 10011 11010 1111011 11110 1100110 1001010 111 1101101110 11101 11010 101111 1010101110 101011 0110011 10011 110010 10011 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, purifiez, have 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, us, urs are repeated).
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