This is an analysis of the poem Albertus, I that begins with:
Sur le bord d'un canal profond dont les eaux vertes
Dorment, de nénufars et de bateaux couvertes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011011110 100101010100 101110110010 1111101101100 1101101100100 0111110111110 11000110101 01101010011 1111111110 11110111010 1111101011010 10011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 579
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ses is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ses is repeated.
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