This is an analysis of the poem Baif, Qui, Comme Moi, Prouves L'Adversité that begins with:
Baif, qui, comme moi, prouves l'adversité,
Il n'est pas toujours bon de combattre l'orage,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX XXX 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: 111110100 11110101010 111011101010 111001010 111111011110 10001111110 11110101010 111100110 101110011111 101010110110 100010111110 1111101010 111110001110 110101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, faut, il are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.
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