This is an analysis of the poem La Lyre that begins with:
Les Dieux, pour lui laisser le vin, buvaient du fiel.
L'aigle à ses pieds veillait, ayant quitté son aire ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXa 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: 1111010011001 1111010111 0101010111010 101101101011 11011101100 101111100 1111110010 1101111101 101110110010 1111011110011 1101010110 10111001011 110110110111 1111011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; lui, le are repeated.
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