This is an analysis of the poem À M. Louis Herbette that begins with:
C'est Paris, saluons la grande capitale
Où tout ce qu'on rêva se trouve réuni ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XXa
- 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: 1101011100 11110111110 110101101 01101111100 1011101101 111110111 10111111 110111101010 100101111011 11111111111 1110101110 111011100100 1111101010100 10010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; c'est, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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