This is an analysis of the poem Si Tu M'En Crois, Baïf, Tu Changeras Parnasse that begins with:
Si tu m'en crois, Baïf, tu changeras Parnasse
Au palais de Paris, Hélicon au parquet, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXa 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: 11111110010 10101010101 110111111110 011110111101 1111111110 11011111010 101110110110 1010111101111 1011111110001 110100111010 11111111101 110010110111 111101110001 11110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; au is repeated.
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