This is an analysis of the poem Que La Vérité Parle Au Dedans Du Coeur that begins with:

Parle, parle, Seigneur, ton serviteur écoute :
Je dis ton serviteur, car enfin je le suis ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XbXX XXXX cccX XXXX XXXX XdXX XXXX cXXX XXXb XaXX XXbX daXa XXXX bdbX dXdX XXXX dXdX XcXd XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011001 11111001101101 11011111110111 111111 10110111110 110000111010 11110110110 11010 11110110 111011101011 101011111100 11010 11101110111 1111111110 11101111011 01010 11111011 1100101011111 1101111001 10101 11111101011111 111110111110 11010100111 10110 11110110011110 111100111101 111111001 1111 111111110011 1111100110 111110111110 111111 1101110111100 111111101 1111111110100 111111 1101010101 11111111010 1110111011100 110111 101010010101100 10101110110 11111011101100 11001 11101011011 11100111010 1101011111 10100 11111001 11111101011 111110111011 111011 110010111011 1101111101001 111111111111 1111 110011111001 1110111100 11111111110 1111011 110111110110 11111111111111 111100101101 111110 1011111111 10010011 111111110111 0110 11011011101 11111111110 110010111010 11110 1101100101 1011111110 111101111110 1011 111111001 1101110111 1111001110 111010 111001110 1111011000 11011110110 11000
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, et, la, vous, d, nous, eux, tous, qu'ils, le, ne, parle are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, qu'ils, parle are repeated.

    The author used the same words ils, parle at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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