This is an analysis of the poem Cousin, Parle Toujours Des Vices En Commun, that begins with:
Cousin, parle toujours des vices en commun,
Et ne discours jamais d'affaires à la table, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXaX 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: 10110110110 111101001110 110111110 1110001100100 111011011110 11111111101100 111111111000 11111111010 10111110101 111100100100 11000111100 1001101100 11011011110 110111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; ne is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ne is repeated.
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