This is an analysis of the poem Seigneur, Je Ne Saurais Regarder D'Un Bon Oeil that begins with:
Seigneur, je ne saurais regarder d'un bon oeil
Ces vieux singes de cour, qui ne savent rien faire, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX 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: 10111110100111 1110011111011 101110110100 111111110100 111111110010 1111111110010 1101111001010 11111010001 110010111110 101100110101 10110101011 11111110011 111001110101 1111011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- 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; le is repeated.
The author used the same word si at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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