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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