This is an analysis of the poem Vous En Qui Je Salue Une Nouvelle Aurore... that begins with:

Vous en qui je salue une nouvelle aurore,
Vous tous qui m'aimerez,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XbXX cXXX XdXX XeXa XXXX XXXX ffXX XbXX aXXX XXXX XXfX XXcX XaXa XdXd XXXX XXXd XaXX XXeX XXXX XXXX XXXX XeXe XXXX XXXX aXab dXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111110 111100 101111111111 1001 1110111010 110011 1111001110 111001 1110101001 11100 1111001111 101110 1110111001 1111011 111001011110 01010 1111110110100 101001 111000010100 11111 1111101100100 110010 1110001100100 11110 1100111111 111110 1100111110 110011 1101110101 1110011 01011000111 01110 110010111 110010 110011111 11100 110001110110 1111 11111100010 01101 11110011110 110110 1000111110 11111 11111110 1110 11010100101 110011 11011101110 111110 01011111011 111110 11011011110 101111 101101100 01101 111110110 111101 1101010110 1011 0111010110 1110 101110100101 11010 111001111 101101 111100111111 0111011 1111011011 10101 11111010111 11010 111111011010 111011 111111110001 111010 11011111010 10010 10100101010 10101 11111101 010100 10101011010 110111 1110011100 1101 1100101010110 01010 11111101010 100110 1001011110 1101011 11100110101 11110 11111111110 01010 10111011110 01110 1101111110110 110110 101101101101 111111 11011110101 1111001 1110101111 111110 110110110100 01110
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; qui, de, la, et, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vous, au, des, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word vous at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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