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

O race humaine aux destins d'or vouée,
As-tu senti de quel travail formidable et battant,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaXXXXXXXb XXXX cXXX dXXX XXXX XXXX dXXc XXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,11,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011011 111001011000110 10001011 1101011 1000110110 11111111 1111011110 11011111110 10011101110 11101101100 10111110001 11110110010 1011011000 10111011110 11110111000 111111100110 1111110 10 0111110111 1111100 11001110100 100111011 11000110110 11001001100 01 1101111011 01 10011011001 111101101110 111010111110 111111110010 1110101111 1100111111 10111101001 111011110110 1011111011 11111111 100110100110 11111101100 10011111100 01100110011 10111011101 101110110 100110101101 100111111100 11100101101 11101010110 111001110010 11111000110 1110111110 0101001111110 1010111011100 11110111 11111011011 10110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; des, dans, de, et, la are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Vers Le Futur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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