This is an analysis of the poem Je N'Ai Pas De Palais Épiscopal En Ville that begins with:

Je n'ai pas de palais épiscopal en ville,
Je n'ai pas de prébende et de liste civile, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100110011 11110110110 1101111100 1111011111 11111111111100 11111101100 1111111010111 01110111111 111101101101100 111110111011 1110111011111 1111100110110 1101111110 11111101110100 1111010011011 110110101 1111111111111 11111111010 111010111111 11111110111 11111110111110 11101110111 1111011001111 1111111111100 1101111111010 100111011000 1111111111111111 111101011111 100101101111 11110011111101 111101110 111111110011 1110110111 11101110111 1110000011101 110111111 101111111100 1111110111011 1100100101 1111111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1943
  • Average number of words per stanza: 380
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, me, ni, je, ne, que, pour, le, et are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, te are repeated).

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