This is an analysis of Presque Berger by Émile Nelligan.

Les Brises ont brui comme des litanies
Et la flûte s'exile en molles aphonies.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Metre: 1101111100 11110110100 1111111011 1111101110 111110111 1111001110011 01011101001 11010111001 10111110011 11111001111 01110101101 101110111011 11111101011 10101110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Epiphora

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