This is an analysis of the poem De Notaire Publique that begins with:

M'sieu Paul Joulin, de Notaire Publique
Is come I s'pose seexty year hees life... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcc XbdbefeX XbgXfXfX gXgbhXhf XeeXifif XhXXegeX jXjXXXfX hbXbXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001010 011110111 1011111100 11110101111 11111101111 11011111011 0111111010 1110100100 1010011111 1110111011 1101100110 110101101 1101110111 11001100 11110110111 1110110100 111111010 1110110111 111111111 11101111 1110101111 01101010110 1111111111 1101010110 110111111 11101111 111111011011 10100111111 111111111 1111110100 111101111101 1111110100 111011110 1111001111 1111110101 11101111100 0101010111 11110111111 10111110111 1101110101 1011101111 11111011101 1101101010 111111101 1111101001 111011111 1110111101 1101111111 1111111101 0101111100 1111010101 1111010111 1111101110 1001111111 101011100 1101010011 111101101 1111111101 101010101100 1111101111 1111011110 1111111111 1101110110 1100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, hees, de, he's are repeated.

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

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  • summary of De Notaire Publique;
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