This is an analysis of the poem Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmière that begins with:
By chance, I heard the belle complain,
The one we called the Armouress,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbcbc dcdccefe ghebbgbg hibaaaaa jcjccdcd akjkkaka jjgggkgk cicaabab fhfhbjhg hbhbhhXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 01110100 10000101 1010111 11110100 1101111 1111101 110111111 110011110 1100111 10111110 1100111 110100101 110011101 111010100 101101 10011101 11010111 11001101 01111101 11010100 11111111 1111010 101101111 1111101 101101111 1111101 0101110101 110111001 010101111 10110111 1111111 1111100 1111111 11101101 11111101 11110111 10111110 111101 1110111010 11111 11010101 1110101 11001001 11111101 010010101 10011011 1010101 0110101 01101001 1110111 1111101 11100001 0110101 011101 01010101 11010111 1110111 111111001 11110100 1101011 1011101 1011101 10010101 000101010 10011111 01011100 100101 10011001 1011101 11100111 1110011 11011101 01111100 1011101 10011101 10110101 110111 1110110 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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