This is an analysis of the poem Ma Race that begins with:
Je suis le fils de cette race
Dont les cerveaux plus que les dents ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXX AXXbAXXa XXXcX XXXX XXXX XXXd XeXX XdXX Xaea XXXX XXXX bXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 11101111 11001110 11100 11101011 1110110 1110100 011 11101011 10 1111010 11111111 101011100100 11111111 11101110100 1011 11100110110 0110011101100 1110101101 1011101011100 11101011011 1101111110100 0111100110 10101101 1101 111000111011 1110001011111 101110 111111111 10101110110 110011010 111110100 1010111110 1010011010 11100110010 1110111010 111011100 1010110110 11001100110 11111110 111010 111001010101 111000011010 111011100011 1000111111110 111111111111 0101111110111 1011111111 1111101010001 11010001101 11111111100 111111001 10011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 53
- 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; sont, encore, des, et, vous, les, de, se, tout are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, vous are repeated.
The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ma Race;
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