This is an analysis of the poem Ma Lointaine Aïeule that begins with:
Par un temps de demoiselle,
Sur la frêle caravelle, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX bXXbX XaXXX XXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100 111101 11100 11101 111110 1100111 1011110 1100101 1101110 1101010 1010011 101101 1110010 11011010 110100 10111 101101 11011 11010 111111 1101111 110111 1110010 1101101 111011 01100100 111110 1001110 1101011 0100100 1110100 1101101 101010 11011 1101010 1011110 111110 1101001 1011011 101110 11101 011111 110111 111111 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, un, le are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
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