This is an analysis of the poem La Loreley that begins with:
À Bacharach il y avait une sorcière blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes à la ronde...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX aX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101101 110101011111 10101011110 1011001011 11001110100 01100111100 111101111110 111101111 1111110111100 10101101100 11111101100 10111011100 111111111 10111011111 110011011110 10111011111 1111111111111 1111100110111 1111111010111 1111110111110 1110110010110 10100101111 11111111110 1101110111 11110111111 11001100111101110 10011110111011 111111111 11101111101 1101101101110 1101101101 11001100100 11110111110 111011111110 111011111011 11111011101 110111111100 111001110001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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; de, flammes, moi, me, si, mon, coeur, mal, il, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mon, pour are repeated.
The author used the same word mon 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 meure is repeated).
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- summary of La Loreley;
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