This is an analysis of the poem Quand Cette Belle Fleur Premièrement Je Vis that begins with:
Quand cette belle fleur premièrement je vis,
Qui notre âge de fer de ses vertus redore, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXaX 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: 11111000111 110101011010 11111011111011 1111111001011 10100101010 10110011110 110111110001 100101110 10011011010 110110110111 110011110011 1011100100011 10111010101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; je, de, alors are repeated.
The author used the same word alors at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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