This is an analysis of the poem Sur Un Songe that begins with:
Ô prodige étonnant et difficile à croire,
Enfin je vois Philis, sans haine, et sans orgueil ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101011001 1011110111110 1111010101 111101110110 111100010101 111111011 010111011 11101111111 10110001110010 110111100110 1011011110 11011110011 1111110011 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; et, de are repeated.
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