This is an analysis of Sainte Cécile by Émile Nelligan.

La belle Sainte au fond des cieux
Mène l'orchestre archangélique,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
  • Metre: 1111111 110100 1110100 1110111 1011110 101111 1111111 110100 101100 1111110 1111010 1100100 1111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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