This is an analysis of the poem Laisser-Courre that begins with:
J’ai laissé la potence
Après tous les pendus,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXXaX XXXXXX XXbXXX XcXcXX XdXXXb dXX XXX bbbbXX efXXfX XXXfXX XbXXXX XXbXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,3,3,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 11110 100010 10110 11110 111110 111011 111010 11111 11110 111101 10111 11110 01111 10110 111110 11110 1011 111110 101110 110101 110110 11110 110110 1101100 1101100 0101100 1101100 1110 1110 111011 110101 11111 11110 11110 111111 11101 110001 11110 110010 11100 11011 1111 110001 111111 11011 11110 111010 11101 10110 11110 1011 1101 111111 1110 100100 100110 1111 11111 11111 111100 111111 110100 11111 11011 11111 101110 11111 11101 11111 111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la, rien are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, j are repeated.
The author used the same word j at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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