This is an analysis of the poem The Norman Baron that begins with:

et plus profonde, ou l'interet et l'avarice parlent moins haut
que la raison, dans les instants de chagrin domestique, de... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbbX ccde ffde ddXb Xcfg hXgi Xjgi ddgk ddgk ffjX ddjX jjjl aajl fflj hhlX dXhaXllha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110110011001011 111011100011000 101010011101110000 10011111110011 101111011001100 100 00101110 10101010 10101010 1010101 00111010 10101010 10101110 1000111 10101110 10101010 100111010 0010101 10101010 10111010 110010010 1100100 00101110 11111010 100101110 1010101 11111010 10101010 10111110 1010101 11101110 10101010 10101010 1010101 10101110 11101110 10101010 1010101 100101010 11100010 11101110 10101110 10101010 101010010 101010010 10001000 011001010 11001010 11101110 1000101 10101110 11101010 10111110 1011101 100100010 100110010 11111010 1010101 11101010 10101010 10101010 101011000 101001010 101010100 10101010 10000101 10011010 10001010 10111010 10001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; de, et, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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