This is an analysis of the poem Tu Sois La Bienvenue, Ô Bienheureuse Trêve ! that begins with:

Tu sois la bienvenue, ô bienheureuse trêve !
Trêve que le chrétien ne peut assez chanter, ...

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: 1110101001 11011111010 1111110100 0110111001 11101111111 11011110100 1100101111010 101111111011 110100111011 1101001110 1001001101011 10101101110 0101000110010 1111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; ve, la, le are repeated.

    The author used the same word tu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ve at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Tu Sois La Bienvenue, Ô Bienheureuse Trêve !;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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