This is an analysis of the poem J'Aime La Liberté, Et Languis En Service that begins with:
J'aime la liberté, et languis en service,
Je n'aime point la cour, et me faut courtiser,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa 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: 1110110110 111111111100 11111011110 1100110110 11101111100 111110111110 1111011111110 111110111111 1110111101101 1001011100 1111001101111 101100111100 111111111110 1111110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, la, je, les, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word je is repeated.
The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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