This is an analysis of the poem Sur Le Carnaval De Venise Iv - Clair De Lune Sentimental that begins with:

A travers la folle risée
Que Saint-Marc renvoie au Lido, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XcXX XdXd XXXc
  • 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: 010111 1111110 111011 11101111 0111111 1111110 10110101 1101110 1111110 111110 11011111 1110011 1111110 01011011 1101110 111111 110100 1011000 11110011 1101110 011011111 11011110 1111110 11011010 1111111 1111110 110111 11010111 1001100 1110100 1011101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; si is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mon, si are repeated.

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

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