This is an analysis of the poem Ole Docteur Fiset that begins with:

Ole Docteur Fiset of Saint Anicet,
Sapré tonnerre! he was leev long tam!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcX daeXa fgaag XXXXh iXggX bjXXX bkXbk hfllX eXiiX XdbbX fhXXh fchhb dhjXh XXfXf hXXii XfffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001100 11011111 011110111 11101010110 1110111101 1110111101 1111101111 1001011110 110110100 110101111 1111110111 1100101111 1011101101 1101011111 111101111 1111111101 101010110 1101111010 1111100011 11111110111 1101011111 10110011 0011100110 11001100111 110110111 1011111101 010100101 1101001101 10010101111 1111110100 1110111111 1111101101 011111101 1101110111 11110101001 1110111101 10101101101 1101111001 1010111 1111111010 1101110101 11101111110 0110101101 100110111 111110110 1111111110 10110101111 1110101111 1111000101 111011010 1101110001 1111110101 11110111100 1111011010 1101111111 1010101111 1100100110 011101111 111101101 101110101 01001111101 1100101111 11101101101 1110110100 10111110111 1001110111 1101011110 11001111111 1111101101 110110001 1011011101 11011101110 111111010 1100101111 00101111101 1101001100 1011110101 01101101111 10111111101 1011011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 81
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, he, an', dey are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', he are repeated.

    The author used the same words but, an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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