This is an analysis of the poem Glorious France that begins with:

You have become a forge of snow-white fire,
A crucible of molten steel, O France! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdbefagebh iafhcichXjkhjgbjelc icghdmcclnnh hcfafecilma khhXlhhnfei
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,19,12,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101110 0100010111 1111110001 11011111001 11110010001 1011011100 1101010111 11010010111 11110111010 1101100101 1101010101 0101010111 01000 111101 11110101010 0101010101 10100011101 01010101010 1011000101 1101000111 1101000101 010011100101 01011000101 10110101001 10011100101 1011010101 1011011001 01010101010 110100110001 1100010001 1100010111 1101110 001 1001000101 101010101001 10111 1111110111 0101001101 1101110101 010001101001 1011111101 1011010101 1101001111 01010101 1101010101 0101110101 01011100001 01110111010 1111010111 0111010001 1101010101 1011010101 0101010101 01011101001 1101010 111 1111000111 1101000101 01010101010 01010100101 11000111001 01011101001 0101111101 01010011101 10010111001 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, of, and, the are repeated.

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