This is an analysis of the poem Le Chant De Merlin that begins with:
Quand j’étais dans le monde, on m’appelait le sage,
C’était moi le devin et le bande sans pair....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba XcXX dXXd XXce XXXX fXXX aXXX gXXX XXXX XXXX XXfX XXXX XXXX XccX XfXX XbXh XXXX XeXX bXgX hXdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110001 1101010111 11100111011 0111001110 1111010111011 1110100111 11100111110 11111001100 1111011101 11100100110 1111101010 1101111011 01010111110 101100011000 101011110010 111101111111 0101010011 111111101111011 10111010111 10111110100 11011111101 11100101100100 11110110110 1110100100110 11001011110 1111110110011 11111001100 1110100011110 011110010101 1101111110 111110101010 111011111111 1111110011 11011110100 11110011000 101110011 1111101110 11101010111 101010111001 111111011111 110101110 1100001011 101100011101 1111011111 11111111100 100101100 1110011010 111101010100 1111110101011 1110010110 111111110010 1100010011 110010011010 100111101011 110101100111 110110111011 1101101 1011111111 11111101111 1101010111111 111111111110 111111111111 10101011010 11111001111 11110101001 1111101110 101110111010 10100101000 111011101111 110100010011 01100100011 11101111101 1111010011 111011010010 1110011110111 11100111110 11100100010 1111110110 1111101111 111100011110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, des, j, la, l, je, viviane, et, en, aide, moi, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words j, je, on are repeated.
The author used the same words quand, le 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 tre, e are repeated).
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- summary of Le Chant De Merlin;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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