This is an analysis of the poem Sur Le Carnaval De Venise Ii - Sur Les Lagunes that begins with:

Tra la, tra la, la, la, la laire !
Qui ne connaît pas ce motif ? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XbXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 111101101 011010111 11110110 10100010 1110101 11010011 1001001 1111101 11011110 1101011 111010 111100 01010100 110100 10111111 11110110 10111111 10111010 1111010 1010111 10110110 10111 1011100 101011100 11000111 11101110 1101111 11111 10111000 11001011 1101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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, de, ses are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ses is repeated.

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