This is an analysis of the poem Voie Lactée Ô Soeur Lumineuse... that begins with:
Voie lactée ô soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX aXXXX XbXcd XXXXX XXXXX XXXbX XXXXX eeXXX dXXad XaXXc XXXfX XXXfX XXXaX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 1110010 111111000 10110110 11110100 01110110 11111 10110100 1011010 1001110 1011011 1011110 11110110 11101010 101011100 1111110 10111011 11011101 1101011 11101011110 111111110 101111 11101100 1011110 11101110 111111010 1010111 110110 1011110 111100 110011100 1101110 11101110 1111101 11101100 10110110 11010100 11111100 11110100 11011010 10111101 111111 1100111 1101001 1011011111 11111110 10111110 11001010 1111111 1111110 10111110 11111011 1111 111111 1111101111 10011110 10111010 11101110 110101110 0101101 110010000 1111010 111000100 01011101 110011100 11101101 1010110 111011101 11001101 1111010 11010 1101010 1111111 11001110 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; des, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, tes are repeated.
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