This is an analysis of the poem Le Babylonien Ses Hauts Murs Vantera that begins with:

Le Babylonien ses hauts murs vantera
Et ses vergers en l'air, de son Ephésienne...

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: 01000111100 1110110110 111011010 10101110100 111111110100 01110010100 010101110 11110011100 10101011 01101011001 111111111110 01011111110 010111111110 111010110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ses, la, de are repeated.

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