This is an analysis of the poem À Mon Ami Jean Aicard, Le Charmant Poète De Mascarille. Sonnet that begins with:

Du sauvage souci, du morose guignon,
Ton vers n'a point subi l'influence maligne ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101000110 1111101010 1111001011 10110111100 1111101010 11101111 11011110110 110010010101 1110101101 1111011111 111010011100 10010001001 010011111010 11001101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.

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