This is an analysis of the poem Muse, Qui Autrefois Chantas La Verte Olive that begins with:
Muse, qui autrefois chantas la verte Olive,
Empenne tes deux flancs d'une plume nouvelle, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa XbXa Xbc XXc
- 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: 11100101110 101111111 111011100111 11011001111 1111011001 110101111 01111111100 0101101101 11010010100 11010111000 11010111101 11110111111 1101101110 111011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; la, et are repeated.
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