This is an analysis of the poem Cependant Que Tu Dis Ta Cassandre Divine, that begins with:

Cependant que tu dis ta Cassandre divine,
Les louanges du roi, et l'héritier d'Hector,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXa 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: 10011111001 1100111010 111000101010 11011011101 1111111110 11100110011 101101111 10101011100 111011111100 110110111100 1111010110 1110110010110 11101110100 1111101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; et, les are repeated.

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

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

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