This is an analysis of the poem Chanson that begins with:
Le joli vin de mon ami
N’est pas un gaillard endormi ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX aaXXXX XXbXXb XXXXXX ccdXXe XXeXfX ggXeXX gXXdXf XXXXXX XXXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010110 11110100 11011 11110010 11110110 0110 01100110 11111110 11101010 1011100 11110110 0110 111110 110111 1011111 11110110 01101100 1011 11110110 1100111 1101111 111101111 10011011 0110 110101 01111010 101110101 1110100 10001110 111 1111110 11001100 10101011 11101110 11001011 11110 111111 10110011 110101100 1110111 1001111 110 110101 111010 1111000 11000111 10101110 1111 110110110 111110 11110100 1111001 1111111 11110 10100101 01110101 111101011 1101011 1011111 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, vous are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.
The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ter is repeated).
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