This is an analysis of the poem Ruines that begins with:
L'illustre ville meurt à l'ombre de ses murs ;
L'herbe victorieuse a reconquis la plaine ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa bXX XXX XXa XXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 1100010011 110011001010 0101011101 110111110100 1110010011 100101111110 11010110100 11101101111 11010111010 11011101000 111011011 1101100111 011110110 1010101100 0110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; de, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ni is repeated.
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