This is an analysis of the poem Aux Poètes Futurs that begins with:

POÈTES à venir, qui saurez tant de choses,
Et les direz sans doute en un verbe plus beau,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXab XbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10101101010 11101111111 10111111110 111011110010 111100110100 10101110110 11110011011101 01011101110 101110111110 11111110111 11110111101 1101101101100 1111101101 101110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; plus, les are repeated.

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