This is an analysis of the poem Ecrit En 1827 that begins with:

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Je suis triste quand je vois l'homme. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXb cXcX cXcd eXef XbXX XXXX XgXX XXXX bXXX hXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XhXX XXXX XXiX X bXcX XXXg XXXg iXXX XbXX XXXX XXXf bXXf XfXX X XXXX XaXf XXXX XdXd XXXX gXgX XhXX XXXX cbXX XhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111111111 0111110 1110101 0110010 111001110 10110110 11110010 101001110 1110110 1011010 11101011 111111011 0110101 1010110 11110101 10101100 101010 10110110 010001 0111110 1101111 111101 111000110 01010 011111 010100011 11110010 01110100 111010 11101100 11110100 10001110 0111110 010110110 11101110 110101010 01011011 01101010 1101101 10101100 1101110 110011 110111100 1101110 101011 10111101 11001101 1110010 110111 11101110 1111110 011010 110110 01110101 101111 1010010 1010111 1100111 101111011 10011010 10111100 1111110 111011100 011110 10111100 1011110 11000010 10101111 1 110111 1111110 101111 1101111 110111 110100111 111011 100110111 1111110 11110110 11111011 1110001 11101110 11001100 11110100 11111111 11111 1111011 11011011 11011110 11011011 0111111 1101110 1101101 1010110 1110110 100111011 111001111 110101 10101 11101000 10010101 11111011100 1111110 111101 1110101 1 1010111 10101010 1011101 11001110 11111110 1000101 1111110 101010 101111100 11101110 111011110 1011100 1100101 11111010 1110111 111101 11011100 010001110 11111010 11111000 100111 101000 110101 110100 01111010 1111110101 1111011 11100110 10011011 1111110 11010110 1101111 1011101110 1101011 111110100 11101101 1011100 11101011 110101110 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 147
  • 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; le, la, les, des, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, les, viens, des are repeated.

    The author used the same words le, la, viens at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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