This is an analysis of the poem L'Esprit Pur that begins with:

Si l'Orgueil prend ton coeur quand le Peuple me nomme,
Que de mes livres seuls te vienne ta fierté....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX X XXXAXXB X XXXCCCX X XXXXXAD a XXXXEXX a XXXXXXX X XXXXXXX X FXXXXGA X XXCXEEX e HXHXXXX X XXXAXXB X XXXCCCX X XXXXXAD a XXXXEXX a XXXXXXX X XXXXXXX X FXXXXGA X XXCXEEX e HXHXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110111 1011011111 11101010100 110111111 1110111011011 1011010011001 10110011111 1 1010111011100 111110111 10110011101110 10010111011 01110010111 111111011110 11110110001 1 1101001001010 11010111010 111101011100 100101111011 10111101100 101101101110 1011011011 1 1010111111110 110111111110 01111110101 111010001110 1111011101100 011110001 10101010111 1 111011101111 111110100010 01010101100110 10011110111 101100110011 100110111110 11110101111 1 1101101110 1111110010010 10111110010 1110011001 11011110111 11110110111 110100111110 1 11111011110 11011110011 1011010110011 110101010110110 11110101111000 1110011110100 11101011100101 1 110110101101 11110111110 101111100 111110111 1100010100 111111101010 0101110100101 1 111010011010 11111110111110 101101011010 100111110 111111010 1101111111111 100101111011 1 110110111 111101111110 11111101101111 10101001101 110100101100 11001011110 10011111110 1 1010111011100 111110111 10110011101110 10010111011 01110010111 111111011110 11110110001 1 1101001001010 11010111010 111101011100 100101111011 10111101100 101101101110 1011011011 1 1010111111110 110111111110 01111110101 111010001110 1111011101100 011110001 10101010111 1 111011101111 111110100010 01010101100110 10011110111 101100110011 100110111110 11110101111 1 1101101110 1111110010010 10111110010 1110011001 11011110111 11110110111 110100111110 1 11111011110 11011110011 1011010110011 110101010110110 11110101111000 1110011110100 11101011100101 1 110110101101 11110111110 101111100 111110111 1100010100 111111101010 0101110100101 1 111010011010 11111110111110 101101011010 100111110 111111010 1101111111111 100101111011 1 110110111 111101111110 11111101101111 10101001101 110100101100 11001011110 10011111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • 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; les, sur, de, leurs, ', des, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ' is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

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  • summary of L'Esprit Pur;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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