This is an analysis of the poem An Old French Poet that begins with:
When in your sober mood my body have ye laid
In sight and sound of things beloved, woodland and stream, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXabba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101110111 0111010101111 101111001111 110101001111 101111110101 100101111101 010100010101 1100010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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