This is an analysis of the poem Un Lambeau De Patrie that begins with:

Ce n'est qu'un bout de sol dans l'infini du monde.
Le Nord ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aAaXX XbXAaX bXcXXc XXXXXXd dXXXcXXXX XeebXffX cgXXXd XHbHXXdXXfgdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,7,9,8,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101110001 01 110111 1110101101111 1010001110 11101011 111011111111 1101011111 01 01110011111 1011111 101111 110010 011101010 1101111011 111001110110 111011100110 101110101110 11101110110 10111111110 1101111011 1011011101001 111111101010 11 1111110111 10001100 1110101100 110110110010 1010011 111111010111 011110101110 1111011110 1110011111100 10 1111101101 110100111011 110110101101 1110110111011 110111101111 1111111101 10101011100 1011001111110 11001111110111 11011011010 111010110110 11110101110 11101011111 1 11011 100101 11011 111111101111 101111101110 111111011011111 111110011010 110011010 1101111001011 11111011101101 11111011011 11110110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; et, ce, de, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    The author used the same word ce at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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