This is an analysis of the poem Le Larron that begins with:

CHOUR
Maraudeur étranger malheureux malhabile...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XbXbX XXXXX XXXba XXXXX XXXX XXbX XXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XcXX XXXde XaXX XXXX eXXb XXXX XXcX XdX XX XXXXX XXXXX XXdXX XfXX baXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,3,2,5,5,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10010100100 1010111100111 11111111110 11101101110010 10 1110011111110 1111101111100 110110010010 100111111111 10 10011111010 110111110 1110111101000 11001011101 1 10010100110 1111111111 110011011010 111101111011 10 1000110110111100 111101110 100101011110 0110010100 11101111111 11100010110 11010111110 11101011011 11010111011 101011110010 11001111101 1110110110 10 1101111101100 1010110111 101111111100 11110011001 1111011001 111010110110 101111111010 10101010011 110100101010 11001101010 110111011110 11001101010 0111010111 111101101011 110111011101 11100111011 11101110010 11111011110 101011110111 110100100110 101111111100 1000111001 1011101011000 0101111010 111111111111 1101110111111 100111011 10001111011 1 111101111010 10101110110 01011110111 110111110111 110110101000 10110111111 100010111110 10010011001 11010110 1001001110 1111101000 110110111010 1011011111 1001110111 111111001100 1101110111 1101110110 11111010 1110101011110 1011011111 11001101100 110010011101 1101101001010 111011111110 10111001111 10001010101 110101101100 10 10101111111 1 1111010010110 111110111 11010011110 10011100110 1 101111111100 1000111001 1011101011000 0101111010 1 111100111110 11101111100 11111011110 1111101000 11001110111 110101001101 11011100110 1101011010 1110111001010 111111011 101111100100 11111100101 110110101011 1110110111110 110100111 111001111011 11011001110 11011111101 111011101110 101111010010 1111111111 11011111101 101111111010 1101011011 110111110110 11101110100 11101111100 111011111 11101111011 111011111111 01011001110110 1101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 135
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; tu, et, de, des, les, le, la, ah, il, du, magique, e, t are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.

    The author used the same words les, il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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