This is an analysis of the poem À M. Le Colonel Damelincourt that begins with:
Vous l'avez donc connu notre pauvre exilé !
À travers les périls de l'océan qui gronde,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11011010110 101101011 110011101001 1010111111 1101001111010 10010111100 101011011010 11111011010 111101111101 101111100110 11111110100 1110001111 011111111110 101110110010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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