This is an analysis of the poem Babillarde, Qui Toujours Viens that begins with:

Babillarde, qui toujours viens
Le sommeil et songe troubler...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX BXXX BXXX cXXX XXXX caXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101 0101110 11110110 1001011 1001011 101110 111110011 1001011 1001011 11011111 1111111 1001011 11111111 111100011 10011111 1001011 111110 1101011 0111010 1001011 1111011 11111110 1111101010 1001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; ne is repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word toi at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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