This is an analysis of the poem La Republique Des Lettres that begins with:

Fragment
Il n'est que d'être roi pour être heureux au monde....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXaaXaaXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 11111111011 11111010 111010110101 111110111111 11001101111110 01010110010 1101011100101 1010111001 1111111111 11111111110 1101111111100 1111101111100 11110101101110 1000100110100 11011011010 11101011110 111101101100 11110011010 1110111101101 11001110111 10111011 111010011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; mon, je are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of La Republique Des Lettres;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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