This is an analysis of the poem Orientale that begins with:
Quand Muzzafer-Eddin dans sa Perse caduque,
Sur son auto-lit-piano,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb XXXX XXcX XXXd XeXe XXXX XXXd XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXb XXXc
- 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: 11001011110 11101010 101011101110 110111010 1110101011010 01110111 1111111111 1111011 11110111 1101101 11110010100 1110111 1011101111010 101111110 10011011011 10011110 111111010 111110 0111001111 11101100 101011100010 11011010 1111011010 111111 1111111010100 1101011 101000110100 10101010 100100100011 11101110 10010111011110 1110110 0010111110110 111000 111101011 1110100 1101011000 101111 1111101111 111111 111011110111 11111110 0111001011 01110011 011011011 101101 1011111101 111011 111101011111111 110110 1110001101000 1000010 1110111010 11111010 10010111010 111100110 10111101110 1101100 11101011100 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; nus, v, d, des, et, de, s, n are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, de, n are repeated.
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