This is an analysis of the poem Reste, Reste Avec Nous that begins with:

Reste, reste avec nous, ô père des bons vins!
Dieu propice, ô Bacchus! toi dont les flots divins...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXb XXXXcX XXbXdXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXdXXeXeXXXXdXXdXXXXXXXXXfXXaXXXXXXfcXXdXXggdXbbXXhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,70,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011111 11010111110 1001100111001 110110010110 101101101 110100100111 11111110011 110101110001 111011011 11110111110 10111110110 1111001110000 110110101101 111011101010 01111111111 11110101101100 110111111111 111111100110 10111011 1010101011111 1110101111110 11101101111 101101111111000 11101111111100 101111011100 1011011100 10110110100 1011110110 111110100110 111111001 111110101010 1111010100 101100111110 1101111110 1101110111011 10100101111 1111111011101111 111000110101 111110101110 111101110111 111001110 1011001101 111110111110 1111001111000 01111011001 01101111010 111011111 11101111 11001010100 11011100011 11101000110 11100110 111111110 1001111011 1010101010 11111110101111 1111111100 11011011110 11110101110011 10110011111 11110110100 111010101110 11110101111 111111001101011 0111010100 111101110011 10111011111 111110110010 11010101110 101101011010 11111111011 01101101101 1011110111011 10100101111 1111111111011 1101011010 11011111111111 110111100101 110011110110 111110101010 010111100011 111100110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 237
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de, viens, et, nos, la, les, je, si, qu'un, autre, ses are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ou, son, si are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Reste, Reste Avec Nous;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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