This is an analysis of the poem La Formule 606 that begins with:

Ainsi que le disait notre François premier :
« Souvent femme avarie »...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX cXXX dXXX XXXX XcXc XbdX XXaX cXcX cXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010101001 10110 1111111100 01100 1111001111 10010 11110110011 110110 1101110110 1011111 110101110100 11111 111101111110 11100 1010001011 11000 11110011010 111000 110111101100 1000110 11011111111 111101 1111001011 111110 111111111011 111110 11101010110 11011 1001110111 111100 0110011110100 1110110 10101010111 110110 1111111001011 11010 11110010100 11111111 101110110110 101100 11111111010010 111111 0101001110 11001 100110111001 11111 111001111011 101100 11111111000 11110 10111010100 11110 11001110111 111100 10111111111 1100 101101111 11110 1101111111010 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, des, qu, il, le, je, sur are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word quoi is repeated.

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  • summary of La Formule 606;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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