This is an analysis of the poem Villonaud For This Yule that begins with:
Towards the Noel that morte saison
(Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXbXB aXababXB aXaba XXBXabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011110 1010101010 110111000 10011111 111011100 110110111 10001001010 10010101 11111101 1000101010 01011101 11011101 110100101 110100111 1011101100 10010101 11011111 1001101110 11111101 111010111 11110101 1100111110 1011111000 10010101 11111111 11111111 111110111 10010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word year at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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