This is an analysis of the poem Bonne Chanson that begins with:

Dans l’air plein de clameurs méchantes,
De sanglots et de bruits moqueurs,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXa bbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 01010110 1101011 110011110 00110111 1111010 1101110 1101010010 0111101 10111011 110010 111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; de is repeated.

    The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

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