This is an analysis of the poem Ronsard, J'Ai Vu L'Orgueil Des Colosses Antiques that begins with:
Ronsard, j'ai vu l'orgueil des colosses antiques,
Les théâtres en rond ouverts de tous côtés, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aab 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: 1011110110001 111110011 11001111101 11101011100 11111001110100 111110010101 111110111010 1111101100100 1111110110011 01100010101 1111111111111 1110111111 110010011101 01111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, s, j'ai, vu, de, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, j'ai are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s is repeated).
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