This is an analysis of the poem Princes De La Chine that begins with:

a. Les trois princes Pou, Lou et You,
Ornement de la Chine,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXaX aXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXXc XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101111 100011 1001101 111110 11110111 110111111 10110011 11101 11101111 101011 111110 011110 1111101 101001 1111100 01011 1110101 110010 11001111 11001 11101 110011 11011110 1101101 111100111 1110 101101 01110 1011001 1011 11111 110111 101111110 11011 10110110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; le, de are repeated.

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

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