This is an analysis of the poem Collignonne that begins with:
Ces jours-ci je hélai dans la rue un cocher.
Elle était fort jolie, à ne vous rien cacher....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXaXXXXbXXXXXXXccXXXbXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXaX XXXXbbdXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXcXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111110 1111111110 1001101101111 10110111 1110101001111 111100111 1111110111010111 1111101101100 10110110001 10100111101 11110101100 1001111111 1111110101101 1110011011 1111111010 111111111 11011111010 11011011010 10010111110 1010111010 11110011110 100101100 11111111011 01111011110 1111111101 0101011101 100111110 1010011110 1110111111 11101110110 11010111110 1110100101 1101101111000 110111000100 10111111101010 111110101101 1111010110 1110011110 1111011010 1110011101 11101001110 11110100100 10110110111 11111101111011 11011011 11101111 1110101111 11111001010110 1110101110111 1101001010110 111110110111 111011010111 111011110110 11010110001 01110101 010110 11101100101100 11110111010 110011111110 1111010011 11110101101 1101111111101 11001111 11011110101 11110110011 110110110111 0111101110 10101110011 01010101111 111001101000 111011101100 1111110011 11111111011011 11111010010 111101101 110100100100 111011110101 1111011111 101011011110 11111001000 1111100100 1111111100 101110110110 1101111100 11101110110 111100011101 11100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2038
- Average number of words per stanza: 385
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, je, elle, re, nous, et, la, de, d, tre, mes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elle, je, nous are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, mes, e, tait, faut, tre are repeated).
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