This is an analysis of the poem La Première Ride that begins with:
Quand le Gentilhomme d’en Haut
Eut tiré de l’affreux chaos...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXbXX XcXXXXXd eaeX XXXX XXcXfff XeXaaXc XXXXXaXXXXX eXdXXXXXX XXXbda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,4,7,7,11,9,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1101010 1110101 11100011 0011111 111111 1110 1110101 1111111 1110111 10111100 110111100 1101110 110100110 11010110 1001111 11111010 11011011 11111110111 1011101 11010011 1011101 111110011 11011110 1111100 100111111 11001011 11001110 111101 11110111 101111001 111100 111001111 111101 11101101 111111 1111010 10111111 11111011 11101010 11111011 1011101 1111100 101111111 11111000 11101011 101010 101111111 1111111 1010111 1111101 10111101 111110010 111010 10101110 1011111 01010100 10011100 1111011 1110111 111111010 1111101 0100101 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; me, ma, jamais are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, ve, loi are repeated).
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