This is an analysis of the poem Midi Au Village that begins with:

Nul troupeau n'erre ni ne broute ;
Le berger s'allonge à l'écart ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11011111 010101 1101111 01001010 01001111 011111 010111 11101101 11111110 11010110 111101110 0101110 110001000 111011010 11101110 110101 11110 1101000 0101110 111110010 1111110 11111010 1110111110 10110001 100010110 1101111 11010110 10110011 1101011 10011101 11011011 110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; le, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.

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