This is an analysis of the poem Ny Par Les Bois Les Driades Courantes, that begins with:

Ny par les bois les Driades courantes,
Ny par les champs les fiers scadrons armez, ...

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: 1111110100 1111111010 1111111010 11111100100 11101101000 1110111100 1011110100 11101101000 1110111010 1101011000 111011111 1101110011 101010111 11101001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; les, ny, par, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ny is repeated.

    The author used the same word ny at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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