This is an analysis of the poem La Divine Épopéee- Chant I that begins with:

Un grand aigle planant sur un ciel nuageux,
Veut savoir s’il est roi de l’empire orageux,...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,8,110,63,81,55,46,102,139,9,66,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2846
  • Average number of words per stanza: 547
  • Amount of lines: 750
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; lui, de, le, son, et, l, amour, d, o, du, ces, les, des, sur, la, une, ce, qui, pas, un, enfant, votre, mon, si, que, moi, s, se, ta, comme, vers, ses, tu, deux, c, pareils, dans, leur, en, baisers are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, les, l, quand, et, ils, d, du, tant, qui, que, elles, car, miroir, c, pareils are repeated.

    The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, lui, e, bres, re, es, s, tre, mes, me, vie, toile, jour, ve are repeated).

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  • summary of La Divine Épopéee- Chant I;
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