This is an analysis of the poem Vendémiaire that begins with:

Hommes de l'avenir souvenez-vous de moi
Je vivais à l'époque où finissaient les rois...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaXX XXXbX cc dX XeX XXfXXgXXX hhXiXXja X XXgXXXgXXe XXgXXXXXX XkXXXXX Xg XXffX XXXX XfeX caXX gfXXXfX XXXjXX iheXlX XXXXbXXgX cXXXXX XdfXXfXXlXXXXXlXX XXXXhXXfXjaXhXXXXXaXkXXXX XXhXX XXX cX X Xbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,2,2,3,9,8,1,10,9,7,2,5,4,4,4,7,6,6,9,6,17,25,5,3,2,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100100101 11101110011 11110100110 111100100100 1101111010 11100111110 1011111111 101010111010 01110011001 111001111110 1101010011 1101001110100 111101110110 111011001100 11010111111 100111110010 111001110101 10101011110 11110111111 10100010011011 111000111010 110101010110 110101101100 1100111000001 11100111011010 11001110110001100 110101111001 110110110100 110011111100 111011110 11100101110 1011111110 111001100 111010111 101010111011 1111111110 10100110111 1011110100 11100110010 1011010100 11001110110 11001011011 110011010011 111001010 1111000 1110101001 1110110011 10001111 1110110 110101011100100 1011111011110 111010110001 11101111100 1001111011100 101011111001 10110110 1111011010 111001101010 11001010010 10101101111 110101010110 111101100 100111111110 111010111100 100100111110 111100110010 100110010101 110011011010 11100111110 111001011101 11011110101 10001100 11001001001 1110111111010 1011111110 1001111110100 1101001100110 1101101001101 111100111010 110111101100 011110101 1000110101 11111000 111110111010 1101101011 1111011111 1010101100100 1010011111 111111100 11011110101 1100111100110 1111010110 10111101110 1100101110 1 10111110010 10111011100 1101011011 11111101111100 101011111110 110011010110 1110111 11111111110 110010111110 110011011100 1010011 11101111011 1110101101010 110110011 1011111110 100011110111 1101111110 1011011110110 1101111110 11110010110 111010101110 0110001110011 110110001100 10010110110110 11111111001 11111111100 110101101010 11011101010 1111111111110 11111111100 11110011110 11001111111 1111010010110 1101111101011 11100110111 1101011110000 111101110110 111110111111 1110010101 101110110010 110101001100 11111001101100 111110 11111 10011010111 1100111100110 111101110110 111011101 10101101100 01101101111111 1111111111 1111010110 11111111011 11101010111 111110101100 111100110100 1110110 11010111100100 111101111 11111010 111111111110 111111110010 11011011111 110101 11101 1011010100 101000100100 10010001001 1011100111100 11111111111 11110111100100 11111011100 10111110110110110 101111010010 1111011111100 10111000100 111010100100 111011101110 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 174
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, et, nos, les, ce, le, de, dans, nous, un, des, tout, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ce, les, il, parce, des, tout are repeated.

    The author used the same words et, coutez 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 res, e, s, es, l'univers are repeated).

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