This is an analysis of the poem M. Paillard that begins with:
Et flon, flon, flon, miserere,
Monsieur Paillard est enterré....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX abXX XX XaXa C XXXd C XXdX C bXXX C XXXX C XbXb C XaXb XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,2,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100 01100110 0110110 1010010 1111010 011110 1111100 01100110 1011110 01100010 11000111 10010010 1111100 101010111 101001010 10111011 110111110 1111100 10001101 111110 110011110 10010010 1111100 1110111 01110110 1111010 0101011 1111100 110111 1111011 111110 1010011 1111100 1110111 1101100 111111111 101111110 1111100 1010100 11100111 11111 11101110 1111100 01100110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; flon, le, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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