This is an analysis of the poem La Clémence that begins with:
C'était un doux pays illuminé de plaines
Où circulaient de longs troupeaux...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXbXcaXX aXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXcXXXXXXXbXXXX XXXXdXXXX XXXXd bXcXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,16,18,9,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110001 11000110 1110110 10111111011 11101100 11110010110 11101111010 1111011011 1100110110 11111101101 1011010111 110111101 11111100111 111101111100 110010111101 10001100 1110101011 1001110101 10110101010 1101111111 111101100 11001111101 0111110100 01110111010 111101101010 110 1100101 10101101 111101100 11100011 10101010 11001010 1000111100 1101100010 1110011 10110101 11111 10111100 110101101 11010110 11101001110 110101100 111100100 111010101100 111011101010111 101111 110111111 1010111001 1100 11100110 1100 1101110 110111111 1100 1010011110 11111100 1111111010 110010 111110111010 101011010110101 111110101100 11101111 110011101111 1111101010 1111110101011 0111 110110101 1111011100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; de, re, les, une, et, qu'on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, et, les are repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, es, me are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of La Clémence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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