This is an analysis of the poem Quiconque, Mon Bailleul, Fait Longuement Séjour that begins with:
Quiconque, mon Bailleul, fait longuement séjour
Sous un ciel inconnu, et quiconques endure...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa aXXX XXb XXb
- 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: 1011011001 111100110001 100111101100 1111010111 111110011010 100110110110 111011010100 11010110110 10111101111 1111011110 111001111111 11110011111100 111101100010 10011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- 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; l'amour, de are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word point at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase l'amour connects the lines.
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