This is an analysis of the poem Je Vis Haut Élevé Sur Colonnes D'Ivoire that begins with:
Je vis haut élevé sur colonnes d'ivoire,
Dont les bases étaient du plus riche métal,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX 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: 11111110001 111010111 01001110010 0101111111 011110101 10111101010 11101111110 11001011011 101110110010 110110111 11110011001 1111111111101111 1001111111011 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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