This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday that begins with:
Le noir serpent, sorti de sa caverne impure,
A donc vu rompre enfin sous ta main ferme et sûre ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXXXXa XXXXXb X ccXddX eefggf bbaahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,1,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011010011001 0111110111111 01001001110 11000111101 111001110100 10111010101 11010111001010 1010010111011 11111110110 111001101111 1101101001 101101101 11011111 1101000111 101110101 110010110011 01111101010 1101111110 10 0110100101 1100101111111 0100100010101 001010010101 111111010001 01110100010101 1001011001100 101011101110 101001110101 1111010011110 11110111010 10101111011 01111101 1101001101 1010100101 1100101101 011011101010 11111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; et, le, from, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hear is repeated.
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