This is an analysis of the poem Les Soupirs Du Servant De Dakar that begins with:
C'est dans la cagnat en rondins voilés d'osier
Auprès des canons gris tournés vers le nord...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXXXXXbcXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXdXX XXXdXeXXXbXXXXbXeXXXffaXXgXXXXXXXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,27,35,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110110 111011101 1111110100 11101110111010 10110 10110 11101111110 11100 110110 1110111111 1111110 11110 1111011010 1001 1001011100 1111001101100 111 101010110 11111 11110 101100 11110 11011 111110 111110 11111110 111110 111110100 11110111110 100001 111 10111100 110 111101011 11001001 11111011 01011011 1110110 11011010010010 1101111100 1110111010 11010010011 010 11110 1110 1110111110 11100001100 010110 1100 111110010 11111111 111000 11111 1111010111001 011111111101 10111011111 10111101100 101110 1110111000010 111101101100 11110 111101110 101010111010 111 110100 1111 111001 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 775
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; o, l'on, s, f, tait, c', si, de, les, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c', pourquoi, une are repeated.
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