This is an analysis of the poem Ô Combien Est Heureux Qui N'Est Contraint De Feindre, that begins with:
Ô combien est heureux qui n'est contraint de feindre,
Ce que la vérité le contraint de penser,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX aaX 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: 100110111001 1111010010 110011101100 11111001110 11110011111111 111001111100 1101111111010 0111011101101 1111111110 11110011110 101100111110 11111010110110 11111101111 11111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, si are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, il are repeated.
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