This is an analysis of the poem Ode that begins with:

Eh quoi ! raser toujours ce timide rivage ?
Toujours aux mimes bords lier mon esclavage ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XbXbXXXaXX XXcXaX XdadXXXeXa XXXdfX XXXXXXdXXd XXgXXg hfXfXiXiXX iXXXXf XXXXXXaXXa XXXXXc XeXaXXXXXX aXXXXXXXXXXXiXXX XXXXXd XaXXXXXXXX X XhXXXc XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,6,10,6,10,6,10,6,10,6,10,16,6,10,1,6,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011010 10110111100 111111110010 11110110001 1011001001100 0101110 01101110 11101110 111110 1011010 11111111 1111011 11011010 11011011 110110 1101110 11011011100 0111011010 1010110001 10011101100111 111101111 101010 101110 11010010 1110010 1010110 111100 01001110 10101111 1110101 11011010 111111 111111111 111101111 1111111100 110111101011 101011110101 11011100 11111111 1101111 1101110 10011100 11110110 110110101 011111010 11111111 1110111 1011010 11111110010 11010110010 100100101111 11011111010 111011110110 10110110 10101111 111111 10101110 1011111 1101011 101011110 0111100 10111010 11110 1101110 1100101101010 100110100110 111101110 1011010111000 1111110100 1011001 1101010 1100110 1111111 1000111 11110100 110111000 1111110 10011010 11101110 101011 10010011111 110101011001 010110111110 1111110010 1111110110110 1101101 11110100 10010101 0101001100 01011010 111110110 11101100 1101110 10101100 1111010 1111110 111011111100 1010100110 11011011100 110110011010 111101101110 111111 11000110 1010100 1111010 1111110 1101110 11010010 1011110 1111101 111111 111110100 111111100 101110010010 1010101100 1011101111 11001110010 11101110 1101111 111111 1111110 11111010 110110100 11011110 1111110 11011110 1100111110 0111111 1011010 111110101101 01011011111 111100111110 11011010111 11010111100 11100001 11110110 1101110 11110010 1111110 110111 11011011 101111 110011 1100101 111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 146
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, un, les, et, le, qui, des, ns, camo, tes, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, des, de, et are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, nue, antes, te are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase l'empire connects the lines.

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  • summary of Ode;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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