This is an analysis of the poem Tels Que L'On Vit Jadis Les Enfants De La Terre that begins with:

Tels que l'on vit jadis les enfants de la Terre
Plantés dessus les monts pour écheller les cieux,...

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: 111110110011 1101111011 101111011 110011111010 11100010010 100111010 111010110 101101011 1111011110110 01100111010 1010111001 111111110 1001111110 111111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 is repeated.

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

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