Longefont. Château De Prosper Blanchemain by Louis Honoré Fréchette: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Longefont. Château De Prosper Blanchemain that begins with:

Ce fut, dit-on, jadis un paisible couvent
Coquettement caché sur les bords où la Creuse...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aXa
  • 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: 11111011010 10001111111 101111100111 11101110110 111010111 11101100101 11111101111110 1101101110 101011111110 10101110100 10101010110 1101111111110 1111011110 11110101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; un is repeated.

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

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