This is an analysis of the poem Depuis Que J'Ai Laissé Mon Naturel Séjour that begins with:

Depuis que j'ai laissé mon naturel séjour
Pour venir où le Tibre aux flots tortus ondoie,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa 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: 1011111001 11010111101 010111111011 10001111101 11111011010 111111110101 11101110111 110111110011 11111111111 111110101100 111001110111 11101100111 101101110110 1111100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • 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, me, si, le are repeated.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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