This is an analysis of the poem L'Olive that begins with:
I
je ne quiers pas la fameuse couronne, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXXcXXXXXXXXdXedXeXXXXXXXXXfXXXfbbfcXXXXfXXbXaXbXXXbbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111111010 110001111 110111001 011011100 1111111111 0110111 101011010 11101101110 11101111 1110110101 11101110 1111110 01101111 111110100 1 11011011 1001110110 1101101101 11011011 1110100111 1100101111 1110111010 110110110 101110010 10101101100 100111100 1100100100 1111110100 1001110 1 101010111 100111011 11101101 11111001100 101011011 111100101 111011001 0110111001 10101110 11111111100 11011100100 1111001110 01101101000 110111101 1 1101011101 110111101 111110010 110011111 110111100 1011100101 111011111 11111110 1010111011 1011110101 10110101011 11111111 11101001 011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2174
- Average number of words per stanza: 406
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, des, le, l are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word l is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, jour are repeated).
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