This is an analysis of the poem La Révolte that begins with:
Vers une ville au loin d'émeute et de tocsin,
Où luit le couteau nu des guillotines,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XXX aaX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111010 11010111000 1110111111 11100101 011101 1011111 01011101 1111101 1111010 11011100 10110110 10011000 111110110 1011110 11000110 10111010 11100100 011000100 11010111 1111101 110111 1111100 111110 10110111 11111111010 1100101011 111100 11
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; de, les, c'est are repeated.
The author used the same word c'est 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 s is repeated).
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- summary of La Révolte;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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