This is an analysis of the poem A Monsieur D'Avanson that begins with:

Si je n'ai plus la faveur de la Muse,
Et si mes vers se trouvent imparfaits,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX bXaX XXcd XXXX bXbb XXXX XddX XXXX eXXX XXXf aXXX XXfa ffXX XgXX XfXX XXXe fXXf XXXf XcXX XafX gXXX XXXX XXXf XXXX fXbf XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110011 11111110100 01011111111 1110110010 11101011 10101110 011010111 111111010 1011101111 101110110 111111111 10101011 101011011 11011100 110110100 1101111 1110011011 0110101000 110001101 0110110011 1010001011 01111101 1110110111 1011110 1110111110 11110100110 101001110 11011110 1111011100 0101111101 111101010 11111110 1111011111 1101100 111111111 10101011 1011101110 101010110 10101101 1100111011 1110111111 11111110 111111111 11011101 111011101010 111001110 1110101011 11111011 11001111 10111001 111011010 1001111010 1010010010 111010110 1011110010 101101110 1111111 1011111111 10101111 110010110 1111010101 0110111 111111100 1110110011 1111011 11001111010 111110110 1111110101 10111101 101111100 1110101110 111111010111 100100110110 10111101 1011111010 11101110110 0111101110 111001110 111101011 110101110 111011110 1001111 111101011 11001101 1111101011 1101111101 1111010111 0110111111 110110110 10100111 111001100 11001001 1110011110 0110101100 11011100 0101010111 1110111101 1100011000 11110101 11101110 100111000 11011010 101001101 10100111010 100111011 10111101110 010101010 1101011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • 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; de, la, d'elle, et, le, les, vous are repeated.

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

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

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

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