This is an analysis of the poem Au Temps Ou Les Bêtes Parlaient that begins with:
Jadis les gens étaient moins bêtes,
— Du temps que les bêtes parlaient, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX aXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 0111110 1111011 1110100 1111011 11111100 10111111 0111110 11100010 1101010 1100110 111110 1110100 11110111 11101 111110 1011110 111010000 01001100 1111011010 110101011 101011100 11010111 1111110 11100100 111011 011110 11111101 1011000100 1101110 10101100 1111110 111101110 10001100 110100100 10100110 111010 111001110 100101110 1111110 10011010 110110 101110 11011100 1111101 111011100 111110 1111110 1101110 11101101 11010111 1111010 10110100 1011110 101111010 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, tes, de, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word au is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word parlaient at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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