This is an analysis of the poem Mai that begins with:
Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXaXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111101 11100010101 111101111 110110110100 1110101110110 1101110001 1110011111 1101111100 10100101100 111111111100 1011011111 10110111010 1111011010 01010101110 010111010 01011101110 1110101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, les, un, de are repeated.
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