This is an analysis of the poem La Victoire that begins with:
Un coq chante je rêve et les feuillards agitent
Leurs feuilles qui ressemblent à de pauvres marins...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aXX b XXX cX XXd eX XX ce Xf XXX XXX XXXdXXXXXXX XXXX gXXXaXXhdgXXXXXXXdXXX f XXhX XXXX edebX fXX debeXXaX XbfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,1,3,2,3,2,2,2,2,3,3,11,4,21,1,4,4,5,3,8,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110100 110110001010 1110011001 110010001110 1110111110010 11010110010 1111011100110 110011111100 11111111 0111011010011 1111110 11110011110 110011101111111 1001101110101 111101001111 101110 101010000 11011111001100 1001101001001 101101101 1010111011110 10010010110110 11101011001010 111011001110 1011111011 110111100110 111110001110 110101110 110110 1011 101100 11010101010101 1111001100 110011100 10001011 111011101100 101011 101011010111100 010010010010101110 1101101010110100 10011010 111111101 10110 11011011 01111010 11011 110111111 1 1001111 110011100 1001011 11011101 1101101 111011 11110011 101010 11111 10 101011101011 10111111110 01 1010111 1110110 11101011 1011 1111111011 11111 11101011 111101011 111010110011 1001111111 111101111011 1101101110 10101101111110 101101111011 0111101100010 101001100001 101110111010 1111010011 1101111100100 1111111101 11110111 11101011 11111101 11100010 11110110 1111001 10111001101 10 10101110 01111 011 01 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; sons, nouveaux, de, la, mer, et, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, veut, de are repeated.
The author used the same words mais, la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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