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

La Liberté chez nous se réfugie ;
Joyeux buveurs, à table et loin du jour,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXbC XXXdXXXC dXXXXXbC bXcXXXXC XXXXXXXC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 1010101101 11011001 010111011 1011100100 111111111 10110111011 1111101011 111110110 1110100110 0110110011 1101111 11111110 01100101100 101101010 1111101011 10100101111 111111100 11111101 101011100 0110111110 111010111 110111011 1111101011 1111101111111 101010110 101110101 1110110 11001111 110110010 11101111 1111101011 11111101 11011111111 11010110 1101100011 1111010110 1011110110 100111001 1111101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Béranger;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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