This is an analysis of the poem D'Un Vanneur De Blé Aux Vents that begins with:

A vous, troupe légère,
Qui d'aile passagère...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXaaX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111 1110 10110 111010 10010 10010 11100 1111100 111010 1100010 110010 111010 01110 1011 1011 100110 0111111 011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ces is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ventez, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

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