This is an analysis of the poem Au Reichstag that begins with:

On m'affirmait :
' Partout où les cités de vapeurs s'enveloppent, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX bXXc XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX dbXX XXXXXeXXXXXe fXaf dXXXXXXXXXXXfXXXXXXXXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,12,4,23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100 1101110101000 111101011110 10110011110 01101101110 110011101110 110011101010 110111101101 100101111101 00110111111011 1110111010110 11011111101 1111101010 11111101110 110110111110 1101001011000 11001100100 111110110 11010111101 1110100110110 1111000111 111011111100 111011101110 110111110 111111111011 10110111110 11111101011 111111011011 111011 1111011110101 10111101111 11110100111 10 1000100101010 110011111110 111110110 11100010111 1111010011111 11101011111 10001011100 111011110111 111110111011 111101011110 111011011 11111111001 111101101111 111011011001 1110101010 111010100011 1111101000 100110101101 11101011110 111001110110 01111111111 10111010101101 11101 10101011110 11001111001 11010011111 110001011110 011101101 111101111111 11011111 111111100 11011110 1111101100 1011000 1 111101011 1101 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; de, en, et, la, le, est, les are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Au Reichstag;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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