This is an analysis of the poem A M. B..., Mon Défenseur that begins with:

C'est à vous qu'ici je dédie
Ces vers, enfants de mon loisir. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111 11100110 1110011 11101100 111011110 111011 111110010 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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  • summary of A M. B..., Mon Défenseur;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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