This is an analysis of the poem Cantata. Set By Mons. Galliard that begins with:
Recit.
Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shade... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababaa XCDccdeeCD Xffggdd Xhhiijj Xkckckc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 0101010101 01010101 10010110001 01010101 11010101 100111001 10 1010111 11101001 1110101 1001101 1110111 1110111 01100101 1010111 11101001 10 1101111101 0101111 1111110111 01010101 1111010011 110011101 10 1101110101 01010101001 100111001 11111111 01111111 11011101 10 11101010 10101101 10111110 1010101 11111110 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, why, her are repeated.
The author used the same word recit at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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