This is an analysis of the poem - Barbara - that begins with:
Rappelle-toi Barbara
Il pleuvait sans cesse sur Brest ce jour-là ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXXXAcdXdAeeXbEXdaXXfaXXXXeAEXXXgXXAgXXhfXXAccXXXhXXXcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100 1101111111 111010 11100 111 101100 1101111 111111001 110 1111100111 101100 1111111001 111111001 101 101111111 11 11111100 110111 100 11110110111 10011 1111111 10110100 11111111111 11111111 111111111111011 111111110 111111111101 101100 11 111110 111010 11110 11111 1100 101010 1100 11011 10110100 11101 011001 1101110111 10000 0111100111110 1100 111111 111001 111110110110 1110110011 11111110 011001 1100110 11111 1111000 110111 111011 111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1638
- Average number of words per stanza: 298
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; toi, je, sur, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words toi, rappelle, sur are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pas is repeated).
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