This is an analysis of the poem Le Dernier Huron that begins with:

TRIOMPHE, destinée! Enfin, ton heure arrive.
O peuple, tu ne seras plus....

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXXX XXcbXdXX XXXXXXXX XeXXcXXX XXfXfbXX XbXbXXeX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXfX XfXbXXXX XXXXXXdX XXXXdXXd bbXXaXaX XXXbXXXX XXXXXXXX bXbXXfXf fbfXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110101101 11111101 1100101111 111100 1101010101 1011101100 11010110110 100111 1110111110110 1111011 110110111111 1110111 0110101110 11111011011 10010110110 110010 111101010110110 1110110 110101111 101000 11011111 111100110 111010110110 01101 110111011010 11001011 1100100011110 0101010 1010100011 1101111011 101110101111 111111 10100110110 10011110 110011111 110110 111111011 1101011001 10111011110010 011100 10111111110 0101001 1001111001 1101 10110111 11101101 111111011001 11110 10111101101100 1110110 111011111100 11011 1011101000 01011111110 1101101101000 100110 111110011110 1110110 011001101110 011111 11101001010 1000111011 11100101110 11011 110110110111 1011011 11110101101 0101001 1101100100 1011110010 1101111100100 110110 11011101110100 111100 111011110100 110100 1010101110 110111100 1111011111 111110 111100011100 0111110 111110110100 1101100 1110110101 11011000110 11010010111 011001 1111110111011 11010111 111111110110 111101 1111110010 10011101100 1111111110 010110 111110011110 1011110 0111101100 101011 111111110 110110110 11111111011 110011 1100101101110 11011011 11010010110 0100110 101011010 1100110011 11110110100 1101001 1111011010110 11100110 110100111001 1000110 111011100 01101011101 11111010100 100111 1111110100111 1110111 110011110100 1001110 1110111111 110010111 1100101001111 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; de, et, leurs, des, les are repeated.

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

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

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

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