This is an analysis of the poem Ô Trois Et Quatre Fois Malheureuse La Terre that begins with:
Ô trois et quatre fois malheureuse la terre
Dont le prince ne voit que par les yeux d'autrui,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab XXXb XXX bXX
- 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: 111110011 101111111110 101111110110 10111111101 1111101000110 101011101011 1101101111010 1111110011 1111010010110 010010100100 101110110011 1110110111 10010011110 1111010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; que, de are repeated.
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