This is an analysis of the poem Les Doukhobors that begins with:
Les Doukhobors, ô frères, mes frères lointains
Et la Mort qui n'existe pas est venue leur dire :...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabXX XXXXXXbXXXaX XXXXXcXXXXXX XXXdXXXXXdX XXXXXXXXXXX cXXaXXXXXXXXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,12,11,11,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011110 11111010110110 1101101010010010 110011011011000 111011 111101 11001111110 101 110011110 10011101110100 1101111010 111100110 10011111011 11101010 110100100111 11110011111011 1100 1001110 101111 1111001 11101 101010 1010111 11010 11111011110 110010110101111011 1100111110 1110110 1111011011 110010 11101111 1111100 110011110 1011110111 1111 111101101001 111 1110111111 1110 11110111110 1110101101 101110111101101 1110101 1100001110 11011100 10110 1000 1101101100110 01111011000 10101010 111111010 111 111111101 1111 10011010 1110100 1101000 10001001 1101110 110111100 1011110 1001011 1001010 011110 101111 11101010 11011100 1111000 11110111 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 70
- 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, vous, le, les, je, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, et, la are repeated.
The author used the same word les at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Les Doukhobors;
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