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

C'est la barque où s'enfuit une amoureuse reine
Le vieux roi magnifique est venu près des flots ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX abXX XXXX XX XXXXXbXX XcXcXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,8,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011001 0111000110111 110100111 1101011110 1101101110111 11111010111 111111101 110011111100 1010011101100 1111111001 010101101010 1011010100 1110011110010 101010010011 1110110 1001000 111011000 111110101 111010110 1110001 10010110 1111100100 11010010 1011011 00110011100 111010110 111011101 110111111011 110110010 111111110010 11110111 1101110100 101001011 1101110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, des are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).

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

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