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

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Un grand château bien vieux aux murs très élevés....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXbXXXXXccXXXdedefX XXXXgXXfXXXb XXbfXXXeeXXXXXXXXXXX X XXhcchXXXXXXXc XXXiXXXXXXXXXXgXXXXXXXXXfXfXXXj XcX X XXXeXXXXXk XXXfXfXXfX XiXXXafXXXXf X XXXXXXXhXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXfXXXX XXXkX XhXXXXffXXjXXXXXXX jXXXXXXX a XXXgXjjXXXXXjXXXXXjXXXXbXXXXbX a XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,12,20,1,14,31,3,1,10,10,12,1,28,5,18,8,1,30,1,12,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111111111 11001010111 1011111011 1010101101 11111111010 10011110110 1111110110 11111001100 1011011100 101100101011 1011011011 10010011011 1111101111 101100010110 110111010011 1111010101 111111111 1101011 101111110100 010111010 11011111101 1110011101110 1101101100100 11111101110 111100111011 1101111011 10011010101 1111011011 11001111110 1110101110 11111001110 10011111111 111110101100 11101010110100 110110100111 1101111101 110100111010 1100011010 1101001011 111111110010 11011111111 1011011110100 1100111110 10111101110 11110111011 1111111101 11001111100 11101111000 11100110 1111111111100 0111110110 11111101001 1 1101011111 110111111001 11111001110 101101010101 11110111 01010011110 1111101 111100110100 11011100010 01100011010 110110010 11001111110 101001111100 01110110001 10111010011 110011111101 11011001110 110100100001 1110101111 1010011010100 111101011111 111111110110 110110111111 1011111110 110001101010 10111111100 111011011011 11010101101 11111100111 1100101110 101011110110 1100111111 110011110100 101110110111 1111011110 101101111100 111111111010 100110101011 10111010111 1100101011110 1101111011101 11010011101111 111111111 10011111110 11111110111110 11001101111 101111001101 1111010111 1 11010101100 11110011110 10111111010 1011101111011 110010110010 110100111111 101111100 11101011010 111001111 101111101 111111110 1100111111 111110110101 1111101101110 10111011100 11110101110 01011010100 11011111010 10111011111 1101011110 11111011111 11010111011 1111110110111 110111111100 010110111111 100101010011 1101110010 11101111010 110110110100 111011111110 1011010100 11010011101 1 011100101011 11011111011011100 111110110110 110010110100 11111110100 11010011010 11001011010 1100101111110 110100111100 1000110110100 1101110110 111100110010 11111110 1011010111100 1111011001 11010011010 110110110110 1011000110111 101010011111 111000111 011110101100 111110111110 111101101100 1111110100010 11111111111 1101101110100 11011111000 110011110110 111100101 1010101110 11010111100 10111011011 101110101110 11101010100 1111001111110 11110111100 1111111110100 1001010011 1111000111 1111111010 1110100100100 110111101 11010110001 10011 1011111 1111101111010 111000110 1111111110 1111001001000 10101001100111 111011111110 11001111111 1011111111 1100111101 110101111010 11011010111 11111010110 101000110100 11010111110 1 11100111011 1010110110010 10110100111 1111010111 10101101010 11110101111110 10011101001111 11111101011 1110101101010 11100111111110 1001011001100 101111101010 11010111100 110100111000 10111011111 1110111100 111010101110 11011111100 111011010010 01000111100 1001010110 11011110011 111101111110 110110110111 11001001100 11001111110 11100100110 11110111 1111101111 10001111110 1 1101011011 100101011010 1101111101 010100110100 11011110111101 1101100111 1100101011 11010100111 10110010111 1100101110110 110010110011 110100101101 1110110111 101100110100 100110101101 111110110011 1111110111 1110011010 11100111001 1100111110100 1101111001100 101111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 531
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 254
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; s, les, et, de, le, des, la, ses, si are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word ils 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 e, es, te, ve, vres, s, bres are repeated).

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

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