This is an analysis of the poem Louis Xvii that begins with:
Le plus pur des Bourbons est un orphelin blême.
Tendre Dauphin broyé, l'Enfant Louis Dix-Sept...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX XbaX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111100111001 1101111011 100111110100 101101100110111 111110111 01001001100 11110010011 1101101010101 111101111010 111001111 111101111 11101010 111100111100 1101111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, son are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word son is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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