À L'Illustre Maître Jean Aicard by Jean Aicard: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem À L'Illustre Maître Jean Aicard that begins with:

Je suis de ce terroir ou la cigale chante,
Où l'oranger fleurit,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXXX bXbX XXXXXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011011101 110010 11110011100 101010 101101110 1100101 111110111011 01011 11010111110 1011 1111101110 0111 10110111110 110010 11101110011 111010 1111111010 110110 1101111101001 11111 1 101111110011 11001 101110111110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; o, la, ma are repeated.

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

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