This is an analysis of the poem France--December 1870 that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a babXacddc X ceecaabbffgXagaddaga X haihdiccXdddidj X jbibeehhddjhhjfXgjfjgfgXgfkgkdkXllbbhhffgghhg a hhhheffemkXkgfgfhfhfdlXdnngeeg a googfofonnmgmgmXmagddgg X gdgXfhhfdlldhXddhahaggmmhhhhddbbddboboobffhohXbb adaddahhhhhdhdlloo afaffbbfg X gbffb X bbddb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,20,1,15,1,45,1,30,1,23,1,48,18,9,1,5,1,5,1,9,1,13,11,30,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11101101 01010011 1101010101 11011110 10010101 01010101 01001100111 110101 111101 1 11110101 11111111 10110101 11110001 11000101 01011001 11010101 01011101 01011101 11010101 01011110 00100100 11010101 11110101 10110100 01110001 01010101 10011111 10100010101 1011001110001 1 111101 1010101 111101110 11010111 01110101 110101 01010010001 1011010101 1101000100010 1101 01010101 01110111 11010101 11010100 111101010 1 1001010010010 110100011 110100010010 1001010101 10010001101 11110010011 1001010101 01010010111 1100010111 1100011111 100101100010 0101010101 0101010001 01010110010 0100010011 1001011101 1101110011 11001100010 11010010111 101000101010 1101110111 1001010101 0101110011 0101110110 11010101001 1001001101 0101010101 1001000101 1100010011 01000100101 1111010111 100101011 1111010101 10010011011 1111010101 010000100101 0111010111 1001000101 1111111001 1011110101 0100010011 1110110111 1101001101 1101111101 1100011001 1 11010101010 11110101010 10110111010 10010111010 1001000101 0101011111 0101010101 1100111101 11101010101 01010001111 01010001001 0101111101 1001110101 0101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111000101 1110011110 0101111101 0101010011 11010011100 1011011101 0111010101 1101010101 0100110101 0101000011 10000110111 1111000111 1 11001100111 1111000111 1101101101 1101010101 1011000100 0110010101 1100000100001 0011001011 1101010101 01011101001 11001010111 01010111010 0101011101 10010001010 10110101001 0011011000 01010110101 0101010001 0100110111 0111110111 1100010001 1001000111 01010101001 1 0101100111 11010100101 1101110011 01000100010 1011010111 1101010101 10010100101 0110100011 1111111101 0101010101 1001110001 1111011101 1111100111 1100110110 1100110101 1001010100 1101000101 1101110111 0111011111 1101011101 1100011101 1111110101 1110010101 1011110011 0001100100 01010011111 1111110101 0101110100 1101010001 1101000101 11111100101 0100010011 1111001100 1001011101 11010000101 01000110101 01101011001 1101101001 110100101001 0100010111 0100010101 1111010001 00010010111 0111010001 1101010111 0111010101 0101010011 101101110101 11011100001 0101011101 1101011101 10001001110 0101100111 1011010001 1111010011 0101001101 0100010111 1101010001 0111010101 1000101101 11110100101 0100100111 0101101101 1111010101 100110101 1111010001 0100011111 1101000101 0101111101 1111000101 0100010101 0111010111 0101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1 11000111 10000101 010001110 10010101 01010101 1 11011111 11110111 0100010001 010101011 11010001 1 11110101 11010111 11000010101 01110110 111101001 01010101 01001101 1011011011 0001010111 1 11110000101 10100010111 0101110001 1111011101 1101010011 1011010011 0101110001 1101011101 0011010001 0101011111 0101010101 1101010011 0111011101 0101000101 11000011011 1111111101 1111011101 1011110101 11110100111 0101000001 1101110101 0111010111 11100010001 00100100101 1100010101 0100110111 1001110011 0101010111 11110101001 01000100001 1111010011 01001010101 11010000101 1110111101 0111110101 1101010101 1011001111 1111001111 1010111111 0101010101 1111101101 01010101110 1101110111 0101101011 1111010101 1111110101 1101010101 1100110101 1101010101 10010011001 1111010101 1111000101 1001001100 110111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 467
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 301
  • 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; mother, of, with, to, her, thro', she, and, they, by, strength, thy, now are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, mother, with, thro', they, now are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase she connects the lines.

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