This is an analysis of the poem Gael 'Imar Au Grand Pied that begins with:
Dans un grand lit sculpté, sur deux larges peaux d’ours,
L’écuyer Gaël’Imar près de la reine Edwige...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX bXXc XXXX XXXX cXXX XXcb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111011 10100101110 01101111010 111011011010 1011111110 01111111101 10010111110 111000011011 11111110111101 1011101011101 11001011111 1011110110111 1111111110 101100111001 1011011110 11010011011010 01110011111 1101111110 1111111111111 101101111101 11101011111 11011111100 1111011111100 101101111101 111111100100 11111111010 11111011101 1111110111 11001111111 100111111101 10111111011 1111110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, l, je, et, le, fer, la, nuit, des are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word fends at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase l connects the lines.
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