This is an analysis of the poem La Forteresse that begins with:

A Benjamin DeCasseres
Loin du tumulte, et loin du braîment de la foule,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 01001000 101011010011 1111111110110 10011010011 11010011111 0110111110 111001111100 100100111110 11011111010 01101010111 1111110100110 11011110010 110010110110 11011100100 11001011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 is repeated.

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

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

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