This is an analysis of the poem Liège that begins with:
À d'autres l'Italie et ses mers azurées,
Et ses villes toujours d'un chaud soleil dorées,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXb cXXXXd XXeXXX ccXXXX XXXXXX XXfXXX dXXXXX XXXbXX gXXdXX XaXXeX XXaXXX XeXhhX bXXgXb XXXXXf XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111100 111010110110 101010101101 111110110 1011111011 1101101 101101111 1101111101110 10110110110 11101110100 1111101010 11001101 1011111100 11011101011 11011111101 1110111110011 0111010101 1110100 11111111 1111010101 111101110001 11101110100 11111010100 111011 11111111 10111010111 01101101111 010110110111 101101 111010111100 1010011010111 1111011111001 10111011 11011111100 1001001001100 0111111 01011011111 101111100100 1111011111 0111010101100 100111000 111111010 101111101110 110100110110 1011011111 111011111100 111011010110 110111 1011110101 11111111110 1011110100 010110101110 11111110 111010111110 11011010111 11111010111 011101111 11111010111 11111111101 0100111 1111111110 01011011100 10101111011 11111111010 01100110 1111011001 111011100110 110100111001 111011100 1101111011 101111110011 10111010 1110111101 110111100100 0111011110 11100101101 10011100 10011111111 11111011110 10010101101 11100111 11101111110100 111101101100 1100110 1011111111 10111010111 01101101111 010110110111 101101 111010111100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; ses, le, t, et, la, y, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ses, et, chaque are repeated.
The author used the same word d'autres 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 es, e are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase l'allemagne connects the lines.
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- summary of Liège;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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