This is an analysis of the poem Ce Siècle Est Grand Et Fort. Un Noble Instinct Le Mène that begins with:

Ce siècle est grand et fort. Un noble instinct le mène.
Partout on voit marcher l'Idée en mission ; ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaa bXbX aXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111101001 1011101110 101001100110 11111100110 101111111000 101111110100 11101110101 11111110 10101111111 11110010111 01011101011 11101111 1101011110 11011001110 10011011110 10111101 0101110110110 111011011 0101001110010 001110110110 0101011111000 101111011 1101111100 110111110111 111101010 11011100110 11110101110 1100111000 1001111010 1000111111 1010011010 11111010111 11111011010 111111010110 110101110010 101101111 0111110110100 101011111010 110001010001 1111011110 110111101111 111111110 11111010 11011111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, dans, et, il are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words l', le are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word s at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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