This is an analysis of the poem Chanson De Pirates (Pirates' Song) that begins with:
Nous emmenions en esclavage
Cent chrétiens, pêcheurs de corail ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX abbXXXXX XXXXXXXX c ddbdefcF XgbgdfcF XcachXcF aaXadfcfXhgagefcF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001100 111010 1100101 11110010 1111010 1100110 111100 111110 1101101 1101101 0111110 11010 1111110 1101110 111100 111110 1111111 11111111 11110010 0101010 1101110 1110100 111100 111110 1111101 10111010 11010100 11110 1111110 11001110 111100 111110 11111110 1111100 110110 1110110 111101111 0111010 111100 111110 1001 11011101 0101010 11110101 1111010 11010001 1100110 11011101 0101010 01001101 11001010 11010101 1101110 01011011 11000110 11011101 0101010 11010111 0101110 11011101 1111010 01011101 1111110 11011101 0101010 11011001 1111010 11110111 1101010 11001111 1101010 11011001 1001010 01010101 1101010 10111101 1001010 11010111 1100110 11111101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 82
- 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; il is repeated.
The poet repeated the same words rameurs, galley at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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