This is an analysis of the poem Ô Naturel Désir... that begins with:

Ô naturel désir pour l'homme être roi
On est revêtu de la carte de son royaume...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011111 101100110110 11011101010011011110011 011101101111 1111111111 11111111101110 1101111110 1111101111110 111110011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, je, et, la are repeated.

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