This is an analysis of the poem La Vision Du Grand Canal Royal Des Deux Mers that begins with:

Envole-toi chanson, va dire au Roi de France
Mon rêve lumineux, ma suprême espérance !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AX AX XX bX XX XX XX XX Xc dX Xc XX ee XX XX AX XX XX XX cX ff XX XX XX XX AX aa Xa Xd cX XX XX Xg Xh XX AX aa ff XX Xb XX AX Xb XX aX Xb AX Xf fX Xa XX XX cX XX XX XX XX gX XX Xg XX XX XX hX XX Xa aa hX XX XX XX XX XX aX A
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101101101 111001110 1111100111111 1101010111 0011000110 10011111110 10111101001 111111011101 111101011010 0101111100110 111101101110 1110110110 10010101000 101010100100 100100110010 100111110010 11100011011 10111100101 101101111011 0111011110 110111011 1011111111 010010101010 10111011110 100110011101 110101011 1111101111 11011001111 11111111100 110011110100 1111100111111 1101010111 0011000110 10011111110 101011100110 100110110010 111001111010 111010100111 100111010101 1011111110 110111101101 11110111101 101010111110 10111101010 01101110011 1110111110 01101100 11010111101 111101111 11100100110 1111100111111 1101010111 01010101101 110111111111 111001101110 1111001111011 111111111100 111101001 1101011101 10101101011 1100110110100 0100101010111 11000110100 111111110010 1110111100 1101101110111 1101011010 0111101110 1101101101110 110101001100 1111100111111 1101010111 101010100110 10010110101 101010110111 1110111010 010101111100 0101101110100 10011101000 1011110101 11010111010 11011110011 1111100111111 1101010111 0101111010 0011111001 10101101110 101110110110 10101011011 1101111011110 1101011001 1110111100001 101101101101 111001110 100110101110 1110110001 10101101101 1101110101110 0011011101 11011111011 1110011000110 1011111110110 11110010110 1110111111 111011101101 1011111100 1110111110 1001111100 10101101011001 101110111101 101111111101 101101110 101011011001 01011000110 010101101101 111011111110 111101110111 11111111111 1011010111 111011111101 011110011111 11111011111 11100111101 1111101110 110101011 11111111100 1110101111 11111011101 101011011000 11010101100 1110111101011 110111110101 111111110 111111011111 11101111010 11110100100 01111100 11011101111 111101100110 111111110110 111110111010 111101110 111101101100 1010110010 1011111110 1101110110 111100111111 1101010111 101101101101 111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 91
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 166
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; la, on, sent, de, l, et, le, est, les, o, d, des, comme, roi, re are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c, les, et, le, comme, il, ils are repeated.

    The author used the same words toulouse, comme, car at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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