This is an analysis of the poem La Déclaration Ministérielle that begins with:

Messieurs les Sénateurs, Messieurs les Députés,
Merveilleux orateurs justement réputés,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXX aaXbXXXXcXXX dXeXXcXX XXXXXXXXXaX XXXXXXX XXfXXaXgg XXbbhXXXXXgXXXXXXagXXXXXXfXe XfXXfXXXcfXX XdXXhXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,8,11,7,9,28,12,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011100111 1001001001 11001101111 1101011 1010010010 1110101010 100001111 011111110 101101111010 1110010010 01010111010 01101111 1010110111110 01110111010 110001000100 11111100110 110111011 1101110100 1101011100 1010100011000 1111110101 110101101110 101111110010 11000110100 1101110010 1011001101 100011000 01001110111 1110111000 100111001 1010110010 110110101 11101111110 110010010 100010100100 110110101 110101100 0110100110 11110111 1101101101 11100011111 101001110 11111011010 11111100111 1101111111 1011010101 0111101010111 1110110010 11010011011 11011101000 1111001101000 100110101011 111111010011 110101101101 11010010101 111000101100 01010011000 110011111101 1110011011 10101101101 11000101100 101100111011 010111011111 1100110000 111001111 111001111010 11111111110 11000001110 11101111000 11010101010 110100110110 111001100 11100111010 110010101011 10010110100 101001010 111011100 1100001011100 100101011100 010000101000 10110010100 101110101000 110111111110 10101111110 101011111101 11010110111 11100101100 1011010111111 001111000110 111001110110 111001110111 10011111001 101000011001 111010110100 1111001101100 10010011110 10110101110 100101110 1101001110 001011011111 111011100110 1010111111 1011101101 101010010110 11001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 512
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 105
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; s, e, de, la, d, nous, et, les, plus, dans, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, nous, dans are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, sente, e, re, res, che are repeated).

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  • summary of La Déclaration Ministérielle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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