This is an analysis of the poem Dedans Le Ventre Obscur, Où Jadis Fut Enclos that begins with:
Dedans le ventre obscur, où jadis fut enclos
Tout cela qui depuis a rempli ce grand vide,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab bXab 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: 1001010110110 110110010111 1111011101 1110100101011 11000111111 011001011010 110110110011 10111011010 1111101101 111111111 1011110100111 1111001110 1100101111 111010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; et, le, la, en are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, re are repeated).
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