This is an analysis of the poem A Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday that begins with:

Quoi! tandis que partout, ou sincères ou feintes,
Des lâches, des pervers, les larmes et les plaintes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaaX bXXcXX bbXddb XXXeXX XXXXXX ffXXXX XXgXXg XXXXdh XXXXXe XXXffX XXXcde bbXXXX XXXhXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 110110110110 111101101110 100110101100 11110001101 110010110010 10111110110 111111111 1101111100 1111011110 10111110110111 1111101110 1011011101111 11111111100110 111111100011 111110110 01101111101 1111111011 1111111011 011010011001 0111110111111 01001001110 11000111101 1110001110100 10111010101 11101111101 10011110011 101101011010 1110111101100 110101111010 11101110011 11110100110 10010110110 110010110 11111111110 10011101 1101111100 1111110011 111110111 101100110011 1110111011 111010011010 1111110001 1101111110100 1101011110100 11010111110 1101101101100 11010101101001 1101101110110 10111011010 111101110 10101110010 10101010011 11111011001 010011110011 111011010 1101001011 111010110110 111011011 11101011111 1111110111100 11010111001010 1010010111011 11111110110 111001101111 1101101001 101101101 1111101101011 111101110 110101110 1101001100100 101101111000 010011010 11011111 1101000111 101110101 110010110011 01111101010 1101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; les, et, de are repeated.

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

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