This is an analysis of the poem Souvenir De Voyage that begins with:
Nous étions, une année, en Suisse
Un ami et moi, son complice,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XaXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX bXXXXX XXXXXb XXXXXX XXXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 11011110 11111110 1111110 1011110 1011010 11111110 110110 11011100 1011010 11111010 11110101 110110 1101011 11100110 1011011 110001 1111011 11010111 111001000 1010010 11100 110011100 111001 10101110 110100110 10111100 11011110 1101110 1110111 1101111 10101110 101111 111111111 1111011 1111110 1011110 111110 1010110 10011110 1101010 1100010 1111101 110011 1100100 110010101 11111010 1101101 11001101 11111111 11110110 1100111 11101110 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; nous, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nous is repeated.
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