This is an analysis of the poem Un Appétit Royal that begins with:
La jeune reine de Hollande
Serait, à ce qu’on dit, gourmande,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXabXX XXXcXd XXXXdX XXXXXb XXaXXa XXXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 111010 1011110 1101111 110010 111111 110111110 1101111111 11101 1110110 111011110 111110011 11111 011111100 11111100 11111111 1101101 11111 1111110 1111111 0110101 111101 11000101 11001 10101101 1011110 1011110 101101110 11111110 11011111 11101101 111110 111011 11011111 1111111 11010000 1111111 1111011 1110111 1100010 11111100 11101110 1110010 110010 110011100 111110 1001111 10110011 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; me, si, et, elle, de, ces, un are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ces is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, re are repeated).
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