This is an analysis of the poem Tu Dis Qu'Il N'Est Pas Temps, Mondain, Que Tu T'Amendes [xxi À Xxx] that begins with:

Tu dis qu’il n’est pas temps, mondain, que tu t’amendes,
Mais Dieu hait le pécheur qui au péché croupit :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX X XXXa X XXXa X XXXX X aXaX X XXXX X XXXX X XXXX X XXXX X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111011100 1110111110 11101010110 1110101111 1 10110111110 0111101111010 1110101111 111110111 1 110111110110 111111110 01001110101 1111111010 1 111111110111 1111011110101 1111011011 111111111111 1 10101111111 101101111010 1001011111 101100110110 1 111111100100 111111110100 111111101100 1111111011100 1 1110011101000 1010110011 11000111100 11010010011 1 101011111 11010111010 111101111 1111111110 1 10101010110 10110111100 11011101101 11011011101 1 1110011011110 11101111010 111011111011 1111001111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; p, peut, il, ou, tre, au, le, d, est are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word peut is repeated.

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