This is an analysis of the poem L'Ancienne Gloire that begins with:
Dans le silence et la grandeur des cathédrales,
La cité, riche avait jadis, dressé vers Dieu...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaabXXXXXXXa XcXc XXXXXXXXX bXXXXXXXcX ddXcXeXeXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,4,9,10,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011011100 1111010111 01001010111 1010100110100 11101110 1100111001 111011 1101110101 100010 11100101 11110100110 1100100 110011 111100011111 10111011 11101101 11101100 1111101 10110100 110010111 111010111000 110111 110101100 1011000111 1001011010010 101110 1011101011100 101110011011 1011101011 1110101101 1011111110 10110100011 1100111011010 10 10101011111100 101010101010 101110110110 1100110011110 10110110010 1101111100 1100110001010 11010100 11101111 10101010 100101010 1010011 11100101 101110 111110 1110 110 10101100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, la, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, s are repeated).
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- summary of L'Ancienne Gloire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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