This is an analysis of the poem Ruines (Nelligan) that begins with:
Quelquefois je suis plein de grandes voix anciennes,
Et je revis un peu l'enfance en la villa ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- 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: 10011110101100 1111011101110 1111011101111 1011100111100 1111101011110 1110111111 10100110110 110011110 11111101 1111011010 11110011010100 11011101010 1111011101 10110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word puisque is repeated.
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