This is an analysis of the poem Dessous Ce Grand François, Dont Le Bel Astre Luit that begins with:
Dessous ce grand François, dont le bel astre luit
Au plus beau lieu du ciel, la France fut enceinte...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aaa
- 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: 10111010111 11110111110 1101111111 11011111010 111111111 11111111010 111111101111 1111111111111 100110100111 11011111001 0101001111101 101001110100 111001101111 110111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, de are repeated.
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