This is an analysis of the poem Refus De La Colombe that begins with:

Mensonge de l'Annonciade
La Noël fut la Passion...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100 111110 11011011 11000 1101010 1110110 11111 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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