This is an analysis of the poem La Muse that begins with:
Près du ruisseau, sous la feuillée,
Menons la Muse émerveillée...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa aXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 101110 10100110 11101110 11101110 1011100 10110100 11011011 1111101 1110100 1011011 11101110 11101110 10101010 1111011110 1110101 1101111 1111110 10110010 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; la is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word puisque is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, oiseau are repeated).
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