This is an analysis of the poem Poète Prix De Rome that begins with:

Enfin, te voilà prix de Rome,
poète ! Quatre ans durant,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXXX XXXb XXXc XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXX XXdc XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1011101 11110 11010110 11010001 11110111 1111111010 111010 1110110 11111111 11101111 1101111 1010111 1101 11111011 110001 1001111 111111 01011 1111 1111010 11111 111111 11100111 11111110 1101100 11101110 1101110 11110100 10111111 10110 11111 11010001 1010101 1001010 1100110 111100 110011100 10111010 110111101 1111100 101111111 111011110 10110110 10100010 1111110 111010 11001100 11110011 011100 101101 1011100 111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; en, l, sur, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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