This is an analysis of the poem Brusquet À Son Retour Vous Racontera, Sire that begins with:

Brusquet à son retour vous racontera, Sire,
De ces rouges prélats la pompeuse apparence,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXX aaX
  • 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: 101101100010 01101110100 11110111 1111101100110 11100011111 110111110 111011010101 111011111001 111011110011 111001011 100111110111 1011101101 111010110110 11111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word il 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 re is repeated).

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