This is an analysis of the poem Si L'Aveugle Fureur, Qui Cause Les Batailles that begins with:

Si l'aveugle fureur, qui cause les batailles,
Des pareils animaux n'a les coeurs allumés,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX 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: 11010111100 11010011110 11111011110 11111011110 1101000110100 11001101100 1110011110 110011110100 10111011010 1111111010 1001111010 111001101100 11100111100 111010011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; les, qui, s are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s is repeated).

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