This is an analysis of the poem Chantons Le Vin that begins with:

Ô vin splendide et salutaire,
Reine suave des boissons,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX abXX XXXX XcXX dXde XXXX XXXX XeXX XXbX afaX eXXX XXXX XXcX XXXX dfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100 11110 101011 10101110 11111110 10111010 110111 1110111 1111101 11101010 10101100 111110 101110 11110 111111 01010100 1111110 1010101 11111011 11010 11111101 1101100 10011010 110101100 101110110 11011010 11011110 10111110 1111110 110101111 111101 101111 11111100 11110001 1010011 111011110 11111010 11011110 1100110 1111111111 11111101 110101 1110101 1111110 1111111000 1110111 11110110 10110 101011010 110110 11100110 1011010 110011 11100111 1111110 1111111 111111100 11101110 11101110 101110 1111110 11101110 11100100 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, de, je, te, bois, tu, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tu, la are repeated.

    The author used the same words vin, n at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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