This is an analysis of the poem Prologue Du Roman De Rou that begins with:

Pour remembrer des ancessours
Les faiz et les diz et les mours, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXbX bXXXXXXcaaXXXXXXXbXXXX XXXXXX bbbbXX XXXXbbXXXXXb XXXXXXccXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,22,6,6,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001100 11111111 111101110 1110010110 1100110 11100110 11101110 11110110 11001000 11101000 11010110 11011111 11101110 1001100 110110 1111110010 1110011 11100110 110101 1111 11111110 11110110 01011100 11001110 111011 1101111 111010110 01100110 11100000 110111 1010010 1110101 1110111 111001110 11011101 1101011101 111111100 111011010 10101110 11101010 1001110 1101111 11101110 1110111 11101110 10001110 10111111 11011011 101111101 11011101 1110110 1100110 11111011100 110101110 1110110 11011110 111111101 01110110 111111110 1110110 100011010 110111110 1110010 1101001 11111110 1111111 1111110 1111110 1010110 1111110 1101101111 11101111 1110110 1011111 1111101111 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 401
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • 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; les, et, ne, moult, tant, lor, tout are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Prologue Du Roman De Rou;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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