This is an analysis of the poem Or Voy-Je Bien Qu'Il Faut Vivre En Servage that begins with:

Or voy-je bien qu'il faut vivre en servage,
A dieu ma liberté: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXXXXX XXXXXXXaX cdXdXXXeX deXXeXXXe XdXXXcdXX XXXXdXXXX cXcXXXXXX XcbcXXXXX dddXXdXXX XXXeXXXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111011110 01110 111010010 111001 1100 0110 110 10010 1011111 1101111101 101100 11011111101 0111110 11110 1011 0110 10111 101101100 110111011100 101111 11101111000 101101 11010 110 11111 111 11110111010 11101111001 11110 111011110 110100 111 1011 1111 10110 101101110 111011110 0011 10011111011 111110 1111 0101 1101 1110 11111001111 110101100 110100 111111100 110100 1101 1110 1111 11111 1101011100 11011001110 11110 111100111 1111110 11111 10111 11100 11110 1101010100 1010110010 101110 11101111 101011 11111 01111 1000 1110 11111010100 1111111101 1101 10100101110 11110 1111 0101 11010 11101 11011011110 111101111001 100100 11101110010 10110 11000 11100 11110 10101 111111100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; et, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ', fuiez are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
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