This is an analysis of the poem A Meline that begins with:

Mais à qui mieux pourroy-je presenter
Ces petits chants, qu'à toy, douce Meline, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbX abXX XXa 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: 1111011100 110111110 1100111001 1011111110 111011010 0101010111 111111010 1110100100 1010101110 11010111110 111110110010 10011101111 1000110011 11110110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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