This is an analysis of the poem Merveille De La Guerre that begins with:

Que c'est beau ces fusées qui illuminent la nuit
Elles montent sur leur propre cime et se penchent pour regarder...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX X XaX abXX bXXcXXXXXcXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,3,4,13,6,8,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101100011 10101111111101100 11111101010111111 110011011100 1101001000101101110001100110 11001001000111110110 101001001011101010 11110110 111011111110111 1111011011011101100111011 101101111111110110 1110111111110111 100111101111111010 11110011101010 11101111 10111010101 11011101100100100 11011011111000 1101101110110 110101101100001111110 10101011111011101011 110111 11011101111110 11110010101110000 11111100111011100111110 101011001111 11011111111001110101110 1111110101110011110111101110 111011111010 11011100111101010 111100100111000 111111110 1110100010 11010100 1111011001010 111011101110 11110111100 11101001110 111011111 11110100110110110011110 1010010 1111110101 111111011110100111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, toutes, les, plus, avait, encore, beau, s'il, y, en, t, je, de, partout, dans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dans, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word mais at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Merveille De La Guerre;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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