This is an analysis of the poem L’amerique that begins with:

FRAGEMENT I
_Il faut mettre ceci dans la bouche du poète (qui n'est pas moi)_:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b cXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXd X dX XXcXdXXXaXXXXeeXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,20,1,2,41,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001 11110111011111 011010111 111111111100 111001110010 01111010010 1111011110 110111110 110111011011 1010111010 11110011001 111011111100 1111111010 1101001110 1111100110 1101011101100 1111111100 1111111000 10111111010 1111111011 1110011101 0111111111 101 010101001111010111 10101001101000 101110011 1011111001 110111011111 0111011111 111010111 11110111011 111111111 11011111001 111001011 101011110110 1001010111 10110101 101011010 11111011010 111101010010 101110110010 1101101110 1010010110 101011110111 011111111 11111111110 1111011101 0110011111111 1111111011 10111010110 1011111110111 100111101 10111111111111 11101001010 110111101010 110111010 100110100110 101101011111 11011101010 110011110100 11001101000 101110111010 100111011 1111011100 1110011100 1100111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 507
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; des, les, et, de, du, je, plus, le, mes are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, et, accours are repeated.

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

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  • summary of L’amerique;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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