This is an analysis of the poem Loin De La Joie that begins with:

Or, une fois la noce faite,
Une fois tus les violons,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXb XXXX bcXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXb XXXX XdXX bcXX XXeX XaXa fXfc XcXc XXXX aXaX XbXX XXXb XcaX egXg XXXd bXbX XXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 111110 0111001 10111011 01101100 10001011 11110100 011111010 11011100 1110100 1011110 1001010 1011110110 11011010 10101100 11011 1001111 111011 100010 1110110 11110110 11011110 110110 11111110 10110110 1111110 101111110 11001110 10111 01111110 1111011 11101110 11011 0110011 101011 111111 001101100 1111110 11111100 1000100 110111 11111 1101001 111110 1010111 1101001 11110100 1010011 111010110 111110 01101011 01100010 1101100110 11111 11110110 1110001 111001 110110 11010110 1101111 11011110 0111011 11010011 0101011 111111010 1010110 111110010 1011110 101110100 11101110 111101100 110110 1111111110 11101111 1011101 1010100 1111110 11101100 111011 1111101 10010110 1101011 1111111 1100110 111111011 10011111 11111 10011011 111111 11110110 1110011 11101 1101101 1100100 111110010 11110001 11011 11100100 1000100 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • 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; s, des, et, de are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Loin De La Joie;
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  • history of its creation;
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