This is an analysis of the poem L'Effort that begins with:

Groupes de travailleurs, fiévreux et haletants,
Qui vous dressez et qui passez au long des temps...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXXXXXbbXXcdXbXbXXXXXXXcaXdXXXXXXXXXaXcXXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100101100 111011101111 1001111100100 1011110111 1010110010 101010010101 11001000111 111111111100 0100111101000 11101111010 111011111100 110111111010 11101101101 101111011110 11011110101011 111010110111 101101111110 1111011100011 111011111001 1111011101 10110111110 110011111110 1000111001011 11111010001 1110111101 11011101110 11001111011 111110110011 011010111011 10111101010 11110101101 111010011010 10011111111 11001011010 100110110100 1001111110 1101111011 11101001101 1111111101100 101101101 11110111111 101110110110 011111011 1101011111 1110101111010 111110101100 110011111001 11011011100 11011111111 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2420
  • Average number of words per stanza: 436
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; et, en, la, les, vous, de, ces are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, ces are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of L'Effort;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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