This is an analysis of the poem J'Étais Monté Plus Haut... that begins with:
J'étais monté plus haut que l'aigle et le nuage ;
Sous mes pieds s'étendait un vaste paysage, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXX XXXXXX XXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 111101110 111010101111 1111110010 11100110010 1011100110 1111010010 110101110100 1111110110 111101111 1111111101 11001001010 11011110100 0111111001 01101010 1101101100 0111101110001 111010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; et, des, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, le are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines antes, te are repeated).
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