This is an analysis of the poem La Chronique Ascendante Des Ducs De Normandie that begins with:

Mil chent et soisante anz out de temps et d'espace
puiz que Dex en la Virge descendi par sa grace, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXXXaaaaXXXXbXbXXXbbXXXXXbbbXXXXXbXXXX XcXXcXXXdXcXcXXcXdccXXcXccXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXcXXXcXcXXcX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXeXXeXXX eXXXXXXXXXeXXXX XeeXeXXXXXX fXXgX XhXXXXXXXXXXfXXXXXfiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXjXXXXXhXXhXX kkkXXXXkXXXXkkXXkXXk XXlXXXXXlXXljXXXXXXlXlXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,54,11,13,15,11,5,51,20,46,14,21,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101101110 111111100111 11101111101 100010011010 1101011011111 11001111110 1111111011 11010101110110 11000101011 1111110111011 11111101101111111 111110011101111 01011111100 1111111101110 111110011101110 101010101100 0111111011 1110010110 11010001110 111111011010 01101001011110 1101101110111 110111010101 101100110011 110111011 1110011110 1010010111000 101110011100 11001110110010 11101111100 011011110 010110110010 1111011010110 1111111110 11110011110 1010110010110 10101010101100 1101010110111 1010111111100 1101101111110 1111110111010 1101101111110 11101111010 111111111010 110011111010 111010101000 111111001111110 111011011100 110100110100 10011111010 11110111111 101100111100 010110110010 110011111010 110101110110110 11101111111110 1001110110100 11110111110 111101110100 111100101101 011101110 1101010010 10101111110 111110110100 111111110010 111110110100 111011111110 1001011110 1110000101100 11011111010 01101110110 11011111110 1101111110 11111001011010 11011111100 1111110111100 1100111111110 101101101000 101101101000 01101101000 111011011111010 111011010110 10110110010 111111110110100 110111111100 111010111010 01111111110 111111110100 1111100101110 110010011110 1110101111110 11101101110 10001001111 1110111110111 10101111110 111111110 1111010111110 101101011100 101101011100 1111110110 11111110101100 11100101110 010111101011 111010111110 10110110110 10010101110 11111111111 11101011111 011000101111 1010011111 11010111110 1101011110 010111100110 1011011011111 11011011111 1011101001111 11111010111111 111110110100 111010101100 110110111010 101000111111 10111011011111 111110011111100 111110001010110 101110111010 111110111110 110100110010 11000011110 1110111111100 10011111101111 11101111011 101011111100 0110010111 01111101111 11111101110 11111111110 10001111111 111110101111 111111110110 1000101111111 110001111111 111010111110 10101001111 111011111011 10110110111111 11111101011 11111111011 111110111100 1011110100110 11111111111 11001111010 100101111110 101011111110 101101011101110 1101101101100 110100011010 0111011100 110010011010 11110111110 1011110111110 1110001110010 0111111010010 11101111100 11100110111 1111111110 11101111100 11101111100 110110111010 1111110101010 111010111 111011111111 11111110010 11110011011110 11011011100 10010111010 1111110111100 11101111110 11111110100 111101101100 11101111010 111101110100 111011111100 1101001100 1111111000 11111111010 1111111110 111111111110 111011110 010011101010 1100111111010 1100001101 011011010110 11110110100 010110101 1110110010 110110111110 11010111111 111111111010 0111010110 0111000111110 11011010110 1011101101010 11111110110 01010111101000 111011110111 010110101100 110100110100 101110101010 110010111110 101000111111 01010111100 1011111110 10010011100 10100110000 11011101010 1111110110 010101111100 111001110000 111000110110 11011011110 1111011100 1110111010110 101110111010 101100100100 110100101010 1101111111100 1111111111100 111011100110 1001101100 10101111100 111010100010 100111111110 1101011010100 11111111010 1011101111101 10101011010 110101110100 11111011110 1110111111100 110111010 10011111110 11100111110 1101010111100 11011111110 1101111100 101110100100 111011011010 010010111100 11111010110 1110111111 11010010100 10110110100 1111111011010 111110101110 11111111110 10101110001010 0111001101110 111111111100 10111110100 1101111110 11101101100 110010110010 11101010010 110110110110 11111101111110 10011101010 10111111100 11111110010 11111011111 110110111100 010101011111 110101110 101101111010 1101111010 110110110010 1101010110 111100100111 1111111010 110101100 1111111110 11101111110 11110011000 1011111111 11101010111 1101001011 11011011110 11111111101 011011110 11111101 111011110 1111111011 11111110111 1111111011 1111111001 100110100 100111011 001101011010 01010111110 11011101111 11110111 11111111111 100111101 101101111 1111111100 11011011100 11110110110 0100101011110 1101011111 1110000110110 011010111110 1111110010 1110110110 110110101110 100110010110 1111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 203
  • Amount of lines: 315
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, et, qui, ne, en, sont, lez, le, fiz, pere, lor, tant, out, i, l', li, haut, maint, la, saint, par, son, fu, au are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ne, et, la, a, en, mout are repeated.

    The author used the same word henri at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines besoingne, haut, feri are repeated).

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