This is an analysis of the poem Marizibill that begins with:

Dans la Haute-Rue à Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11111001 11011001 101011110 1101110 10011110010 11110111 11100111 1000111101 11010010 100110010 11101101010 1100001110 1000011010 1111111000 11101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; de is repeated.

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

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