This is an analysis of the poem La Pierre Aqueuse that begins with:
C'était une belle brune
Filant au clair de la lune, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaaX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX aXXXXX XXbXXb XXXXXX XXXXXb XXXXcX cXaXXX XXbXXX XXaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1011011 11010110 101101 110111 101111 11110110 111110 11110 11011100 10110100 1011010 111100 11110111 1110010 1111 110011 1101110 11101000 11001110 1111110 0111 11011 1001011 111001 01110 1001011 11101000 01010100 101011 11111100 11111110 1001001 111111 110010 1010101 0110100 0101100 110110 101110 111111110 111101 111000 110110 1101011 111110 110110 1101101 1101011 101111 1111100 1100111 11010010 111110 10111010 111100 1010101 111101 11010100 1111100 10101010 110111 10111 110110 1101011 1111110 1101110 010111 111111 111010 1111111 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; trop is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ah, chose are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, res, re are repeated).
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