This is an analysis of the poem La Grecque Poésie Orgueilleuse Se Vante that begins with:
La grecque poésie orgueilleuse se vante
Du los* qu'à son Homère Alexandre donna,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 111100111 01111001010 1111101010 110101111110 11011111110 111111101 101010110100 1111111010 111111111111 1111011101 1101101111 11011111 01101011100 110011101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; les, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.
The author used the same word la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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