This is an analysis of the poem Une Statue (1) that begins with:

On le croyait fondateur de la ville,
Venu de pays clairs et lointains,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXba bcbb XXXX adXX XXXX dXXX XXcX XXXd XbXX dXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100011 10011110 10111011 11111110 1111101101100 11100101111 11111011001 1101100 111101110 1010010010 111111 1111 110010010 11010001011 110011110 011110 1101011010 10111010 111010000 100011101010 111101001 110111 11101111101 11111 110100111110 11100101100 11111000100 101010111010 1100111011110 101111110 11111101110 101011110101 11111010 1011110100 11100100 11101010 11110111010 111011100 1101110 10011 1101101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; et, le, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, on are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Une Statue (1);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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