This is an analysis of the poem La Louisianaise that begins with:

Je sais une rive sereine
Qui, sur un frais lit de roseaux,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXX XXXXbbXXX cXcXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 11111010 1011011 1111110 101101 10101010 0111100 110100 110100 111111 11000100 110110 111101 11101101 1001101 11111100 1011 111010 1111101 11111110 1111001 1011111110 111100 1110111 1110100 101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of La Louisianaise;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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