This is an analysis of the poem Quel Est Celui Qui Veut Faire Croire De Soi that begins with:
Quel est celui qui veut faire croire de soi
Qu'il est fidèle ami, mais quand le temps se change,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX bXaX XXX bXX
- 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: 10110111101 10011101101111 011111000111 10101110101 1011011101001 10111111111 1110111101101 0110111111101 1110110111111 10110110111 110101110110 11111111110111 11110110011 11010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, de are repeated.
The author used the same word quel at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lestrange connects the lines.
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