This is an analysis of the poem La Reine Du Bal that begins with:

Oui, je sais qu'elle est la plus belle,
La reine du bal, je le sais ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bcbc XXdX aeXe Xefg gXgX XXbX XhXh XXda XXff XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111001111 11011101 111111010 1111110010 11110011 101011 110001111 111011 101101110 110110 1101010 01111 1110011 11011 11110110 01111011 101101 11111 111101111 10100101 1011001 1000110 1101101 111110110 1011111 1001010 100110110 1110010 11001011 11111011 101111 11111011 1011110 10111010 1101110 11101101 111101111 10110110 10111111 1110101 01110110 11111100 0101011 1011011 1100011 111111 1100111 111110 101010011 111111 1001101 10111100 1111111 11111111 1101011 11100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; je, la, me are repeated.

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

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  • summary of La Reine Du Bal;
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  • history of its creation;
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