This is an analysis of the poem Le Départ that begins with:

Traînant leurs pas après leurs pas
Le front pesant et le coeur las,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXX XXX XXXXcX XX dXXb XXXXX XXXeXe XXXXXX baca XXXXaX XfXfXXaX XXXXXaaXaabXXXcc XX XXXXXXXXXX baXXXdXXe XX XXXXXXXaX XXXXXXXXXXbXX XbXXaggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,6,2,4,5,6,6,4,6,8,16,2,10,9,2,9,13,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 0110101111 11011110 11101001 1011001 11101101 1101 11000110 1011111 1110101 1011110 1001101 101 0110110 11111110 1110100 100111011 100110100 111011100 1110 10111110 1010111 1011111 10010110 1111111 11101101 11111110 110 11101111 11011101 110111 11101101 111011010 11101110 10111010 101010100 1011111 11101101111 011111 1101111 11101111 111011000 111111010 11100 111011100 11101111 100110 10111011 1010111 10111110 111111 111110110 1110 1011111 11111100 1110110 1101101 1001000 111011100 01001101 1101111 11101111 1101 101111 1110111 111011111 01111110 10101100 11111111 0111011101 111011 11111110 1010100 11011100 100010 1010011 1110011 1010111100 100011000 0110 1010111 11111100 10100100100 110111 1011 01100110 01001011110 11001101 10101101 11100 1011 110101111 1110 10101110 11101110 111011111010 1000111 110110 11011000 10110111010 11101111 101011 11101110 101111110 101001 111111111 1000101 10100110 1101110 10111110 101111111000 10101011 0101110 1010110 1011010 01001100 1010111 1111100011 10111110 101111110100 100011001111 11111110001 111111111111 1000
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 124
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; le, de, rien, avec, gens, les, leur, mord, o, la, et, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words l'auberge, avec, deux, et, les, o, le are repeated.

    The author used the same words l'auberge, les 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, res are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rien connects the lines.

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