This is an analysis of Chanson. - And Imitation by Matthew Prior.

Que fais tu bergere dans ce beau verger
Tu ne songe gueres a me soulager?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX a bbccXccaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,1,9,
  • Metre: 1111011110 11111001100 1101111110 111001011 1011110010 11111111100 111111011 111011111 1010 11001111001 01001101001 11111111111 11101001111 11101111101 111110111101 111111111001 111101111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

tu, you

Anaphora

tu