This is an analysis of the poem Si Après Quarante Ans De Fidèle Service that begins with:
Si après quarante ans de fidèle service
Que celui que je sers a fait en divers lieux,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXa Xbb 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: 1101010110 1101111011101 10010111111 110011011100 110101010 1011011010 11101011111 01110100101 1111100111111 111001110011 1111111110101 11110111101 101110110100 111010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; je is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word je is repeated.
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