This is an analysis of the poem Mai that begins with:
Hozanna ! La forêt renaît de ses ruines ;
La mousse agrafe au roc sa mante de velours ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 10011100110 11101111010 11111111010 100110111010 00110010110 1111110101101 111111110100 11011110110 111001011 01011110011 1010111101 10111101011 10010011110 1111001010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; la, de, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.
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