This is an analysis of the poem À S. E. Lady Minto that begins with:
La scène était navrante. On voyait jour et nuit
— Un incendie avait presque rasé la ville ―...
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: 11110110111 110101111 11010110110 10110011101 1110010111 11011101011 1100111111 1110001101 1110110100 111011011111 1111110100 111001100111 101110111100 11111110001110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- 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, un are repeated.
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