This is an analysis of the poem À Travers L'Europe that begins with:

Rotsoge
Ton visage écarlate ton biplan transformable en hydroplan...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXX bbXXXXXX X aXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,1,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 110101101001100 11011111101 111111100 10001110111100 11101000111 1011111111 11111111111010010011 1110111 11111111 01110110 11111 101101 01111111110 101011001011 1111101110001100 1111101100100 11001111011011001 111010101011110 1111011101011010101111 11101111110100 1101101110110 1111110 1100101 11111110 110111100 10111110 11101010 10101010110000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; m, ouvre, la are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines routes is repeated).

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