This is an analysis of the poem A Madame Marguerite, D'Écrire En Sa Langue that begins with:

Quiconque soit qui s'étudie
En leur langue imiter les vieux, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXbcbdXXXXXXbaXbXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 11110011 1100110 111111 1011101 110110 1101101 1010111 11101111 110111101 010101010 1010111 1101011 111010100 101101110 0101110 111100 0101110 10101011 111101 11010101 11001100 10011101 1010110 1101101111 01100100 10101110 1111110 101111111 111110 10110111 1101110 1111111 0110100 111011 1110110 111011 11011110 1010111 101101 110111 10111010 1101110 0011000 01011110 01111001 0111110 101110 111111 111111110 111110 1111111010 1011101 11011010 1111011 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1736
  • Average number of words per stanza: 317
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qui, les, le are repeated.

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

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