This is an analysis of the poem Que Dirons-Nous, Melin, De Cette Cour Romaine that begins with:

Que dirons-nous, Melin, de cette cour romaine,
Où nous voyons chacun divers chemins tenir,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa 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: 11011001101 111010101010 111110110100 11110101111 111100111 111101111100 1111111000 11011111010 1111100111110 1110011110 111111011000 1110100101010 111100010010 101110010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; par is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Que Dirons-Nous, Melin, De Cette Cour Romaine;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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