This is an analysis of the poem Ceux De Liége that begins with:
Dût la guerre mortelle et sacrilège
Broyer notre pays de combats en combats, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX XXaXX bXXXc XdbeaeX XXXXeeXddXd XXXXfbXX aXXXXXX XXddddXfXXXbXXec XXXXXaXa fXbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,7,11,8,7,16,8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 10101001101 10100111100 111110111 01 101001 110011001011 11 111011100 10011011100 11010 11101100100 110110 0110100 10110111 110010 110101011110 01 0110110111 110101110 11101110011 111011000 1100 101110 110010010100 1111010101 01101 1011111111 1101011011000 1111011111101 10000110011 11111100 11 111111101100 11001101101 1101111110 1111001111110 11110011101 101 111101001001 11101110 0101110 111111101100 11111011000 11111111100 1001100 11111100 111100 100110110110 1000011001100 11001101111 111010110110 01110 1110 11001110 10001 110011 10111010110 111010100100 11110 010110 11110101100 110101 1111111100111 11010100 01111 11100 111 01101100 1110 10101100 1010 111001 11110110 11011111010 10100111100 111110111 01
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ils is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pas, re, es are repeated).
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- summary of Ceux De Liége;
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