This is an analysis of the poem Les Cigares Du Roy that begins with:
Je lisais, l’autre jour, un journal visigoth,
Dans une tabagie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXb cXXb XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX cdXd eXeX
- 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: 111011110100 1110 1101111101 10011 1111110110 111110 1001101111 1100100 110101110110 111001 1101111110 111110 1101101111101 111110 101111110110 01101 111101110 111000 111100101100 101100 11100110100 1001100 1110011011 111100 111101011110 111010 10011011110 11011 111010111111 1111 11110110010 110001 111100111110 111111 10011010100 01111 1111010110010 1101100 111010101110 111100 100111110101 1101000 1111011010 1010100 1101011010 110110 11010011101 1101100 10111011000 11011 1111100110010 111011 1111100111110 110011 111101111100 110101 11111110011 111110 110100111111 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; des, s, la, de, les, et, un are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word un is repeated.
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