This is an analysis of the poem La Conquête that begins with:

De l'Est à l'Ouest, du Sud au Nord,
Stridents et violents, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXaXb XXXXXXXXcXdXe XXXXXaXaXXXf eXXXXXXX XXXXXeXeXXXXXdb bXXXaXXXXXcXXaXXXXXXXXXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,12,8,15,26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110111 10110 1111 1110111010 1100111 11111100 1111000 111111111111 10101011010 1011110001100 1100110001 1011101001110 11 101011110110 100111101110 1001011001 1101111110 010101110 11100111100 111001101111 10111111101 10001111011 11111110010 100011110111 111001101010 111101100110 11100111101 10101011101 01011010101 01001011010 11110111100 11000111110 111011111100 11101111110 1010010100 100101001010 1001101101000 101001101100 1110110100101 110011001100 11111101110 1100111011100 111111010110 11110101111101 101100101100 0110011011 10111111111 11111110011 111010111011 11100111011 11111111110 111110101010 11110011100 11101111101 11011111011 101111011110 1111010011 1101111011 11111101 1100110111 010001011011 101110 111100111 111001110 110010110 11100010001 110111110111 10111010110 110101111 10011111111 1011110100 1111011001 11111101111010 10111011010 10110101011 1011111111 10111110111 110111011110 11011110 1111101100 1111111110 11111101110 111101101110 11001111100 011101001100 1111111111111 101011111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 87
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, les, la, de, des, le, l'or, il, c'est, qui are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, a, l'or, il are repeated.

    The author used the same word oh 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 te is repeated).

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  • summary of La Conquête;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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