This is an analysis of the poem L'Exemplaire Du Roy that begins with:

J’ai rêvé posséder les œuvres de Malherbe.
Un exemplaire unique, admirable, un trésor !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1110110010 110001100011 11001111011 1101110011 01101110010 011101111 11101001001 110100110001 111101110111 1110110001 111111011110 10101011100 1111011010 111010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, les, le are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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