This is an analysis of the poem A Villequier that begins with:

Maintenant que Paris, ses pavés et ses marbres,
Et sa brume et ses toits sont bien loin de mes yeux ;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XbXX XXXX cdcX XXXX XXXd XXXd dXXX XXXX XXcX eceX aXaX XXXX fgXX aXXh XXXX XhXX XdXX XXXX XXXi iXjX XXXX XXXc XXXd XXda XXXX XcXc XXkX XXXX XkaX XdXX XXiX XXXg XXfX XXiX XXXb XXfX jbjb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110111110 111111111011 10011111110110 11111101111 100101111101 1111110 111111101110 11101 10011111011110 111110110010 01001111100 110011111010 1001111111 01010 10111011111111 11110 10010001110100 111010110 1011001101100 111011010100 111110110111 111110 11001111011 11101 111110100111 1101011110 11101111011110 1111110111011 11110101111111 10100 1111001110101 010010 111010111110 1010001100 111010011111010011 1111111110 11111111110 1110 1011110111 110 11110101011110 1111111100 11001110110 11101011100110 110100101101 100111 1101101011101 111101 1101110101001 1111011111001 110111110110 110110111110 111101111111 110110 1110111011001 110110 01011110100 110111101111 11101011110 11101111011 11111101111 10111 110111110011 111111 111101111101 110111111110 111001111 11111110110100 1111111111110 101011 111111111010 110111 1111101111 110110010110 11101110100 1110011011 110111011011 11110 11010101001 1110 110111110100 111110111100 1111010010010 1100111001 11111010011 10100 10111111111 1111100 10011110110 10100111 1001101110 100111011 11010011111 111101 1111110110110 11111101 1111011111 1100001110 11111011101 1110011111 1011011110110 11110 111011111111 10111 10010111111 11111101100 101111111101 11111111111100 110111111111001 11010 1110111 11010 1011111111 111111101110 11111111010 11100111100 1011100110111 11100 111100111010 111110 11111100110 1110111110 11111011101 1101111111111 1111010101110 0111111 11111101110 1110 110110111 11110111100 111010110011 1111110111100 11101101011111 101100 11111111011 11111111 11110011111011 111101101 101110110111 11101101111 111100111011 101011 1101100100101 011010 101110111100 1011011111110 101110110110 10111111010 1001111111 10110 111001110110 1111 11011110111111 1111011110 10001001111101 1011101111010 11111101110 011101 100111111 001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; et, ses, que, vous, le, conviens, je, la, les, de, mon, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, il, que are repeated.

    The author used the same words maintenant, je, ne at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of A Villequier;
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