This is an analysis of the poem Jean De Breboeuf that begins with:
As Jean de Breboeuf told his rosary
At sundown in his cell, there came a call!--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXb dedde fgffg hehhX ijiiX bfbbf cbccb bibbi kckka gkggk gjggX dlddl Xgiig gjggj kXkkX kmkkm cjccX kkXkX cecceXedeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010100 1110011101 1101110111 1001001000 10010100101 1101011011 1111111101 1111111101 1001110101 0101010001 1111010101 0101111101 1011110101 0101011101 1111000111 1101110101 1111000101 1101101111 1101010101 00010111010 1101010101 10001010101 1111111111 1111010101 11010100110 0111110001 1111010111 1101010101 1111100111 101010101 1000010111 1001011011 0001010101 0111010101 11010010111 1101011101 0101111111 1101011111 11010111001 1011100100 1101010101 10110011111 1111011111 1100011111 0001011100 1111010101 1101111111 1111011101 11010011101 1011010111 1111010100 1101110101 11010100101 11010010111 0101000101 0101010101 0011111111 1101110101 1111010111 11110010111 1101011100 0101010101 1100110101 1111010111 1101110101 1001010001 1101011011 1101011101 0011011111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010111 0110010101 1101000101 1001000101 10110010111 0101010101 11010110111 1111010101 0111111101 1101010111 1001010101 0100010001 1101010101 1001010101 1001010101 1101110101 1111011101 1101101111 1011110101 1111010111 01001110111 0101110101 1101010101 1111010101 11110100101 111101111 1101111101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; he, their, and, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, he, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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