This is an analysis of the poem Éloquence Perdue that begins with:
Un dimanche de Fructidor
Dernier, dans un village...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXcX cXXc XXXb XXXX XXcX XXXX dXdX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1100100 101110 011110 110010 11111 11101 101010 100011 1110111 1011010 10010010 101100 11101010 1100 111111 11111 11111110 1101 1111001 111001 11011110 01100 1111110 1111 110111110 111011 11101110 01010 11111100 110011 1111110 110010 1100110 0111001 11101 1101100 110111101 11110 11100110 111011 111101110 101100 110111110 1010110 1011010 1111 110101010 110110 11001100 110111 1111110 11010 11000010 11011 11001001 10011 11101100 1101 10110010 101100 1111110 11111 101111011 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word en is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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