This is an analysis of the poem La France that begins with:

Poète honore-là
Souci de la Beauté non souci de la Gloire...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXXX bX XX XXbXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,2,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 10011110011 11010111101 10111010 11111010110 111011111011 10110111010 1101010111 11111110101 110101011000 1111011101 10110101010 1011110111 111101011100 11101010111 1101111 11111100101 101111111101 1111110101 10110011110 111111010011 11001011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; la is repeated.

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

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  • summary of La France;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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