This is an analysis of the poem Les Barbares that begins with:

Là-bas,
Parmi les Don, et les Dnieper, et les Volga,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXXXXXXbXXXX XXcXcXX XdXXXXXXXd XXe XXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XcbXXXaXXcXf XXX XXXgfXXgXe XXhXXfXXcXXXXXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,7,10,3,20,12,3,10,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 101111101110 1111011110 1011 111111 111100011 1001101000 11 0110010110 1111111110 11101 111101011 101001 110010110001 10110 11101100 01111111 1101000 1110101100101 11101010111 110111111110 110011001110 110111010100 1010110101100 1110111010 11101101101 1111010110111 110101100 1111001110 11101101010 1110101111 1111111111110 111010101110 111 111000111001 1010110001110 11 111011101111 11001100111 10011001111 10101111101 11111110 0100100111 1111011110 010111111110 110011101010 00111110100 110110100100 111011100110 110101110 10110110010 10111011100 10111001010 110010001110 11010110110 1110110110011 11110110100 111111111 010111100111 11100110001 1101111011 111100111101 111010111000 101011011011 111000101100 110111111100 1110101011101 111001101110 11110110011 11 111011111010 101100 1011110110 1 110011111011 1010011101011 11011 11101111010 111110101110 111010001101 11010101010 110101001 1111111110 11101111110 110010111101 110111110 1111100101010 111001111001 11010111010 1100011011 101100110111 1111111010 11110110110 11101111110 111011101010 110110111010 1111011111 11111111 110100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 473
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, en, des, de, la, ces, mais, qui are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word la 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 Les Barbares;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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