This is an analysis of the poem Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert D'Estouteville that begins with:
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc ababacaC abXXdcdC dXXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101110101 110010101010 1101111111 110011100110 110010010111 11101100101010 11111100101 11101111010 110111101110 11001110111 11011111110 1111001011010 110111101010 1110001001010 100111011010 10101111010 11111010 1111100101 1110100100 1111111101 1011111111 10100101110 1101011101 10101111010 1010001101 1111101100 111010111 10101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; my, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word together at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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