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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