This is an analysis of the poem Petite Ste. Rosalie that begins with:
FATHER Couture loves a fricassee,
Served with a sip of home-made wine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaB caX baB caX XaB baXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010 10010111 100111011 110011100 110111111 10011010 1101011001 10010101 100111011 111010100 1101101001 10011010 110101001 110110101 100111011 1011001001 0101001101 10011010 10100111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The poet repeated the same word free at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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