This is an analysis of the poem À Henri V that begins with:

Henri Cinq ! à ce nom n’augurez point d’outrage
Pour l’héritier des lis, emporté par l’orage....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXbXXaXcdXXXXbXXXXXXeXffXXXXXcXXXcXXXXXXghXXXXXXXX XeXfiXXXXXaXiXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXgXXdXXXXXXjjhgXaXXXXXXggXXXXXXXXXXaXXXdXfXXXXXhXXX fXXXXX fXifXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXXXaX XXXX XXeXXbca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,78,6,32,4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111100110 1101110110 1111111111111 1100111101 1011001110011 111101111110 111111101 110011100100 1111001110 10011010011 111111111 10101110011 1101111010 110011110101 1101011101 1111010010 111100110 0101010001 10101010100 110111111111 11010111001 11101111 110100101110 110011101100 10011110010 10110111000 11001110001 111011111110 1011111101 110101111 1111110111010 110110111100 11100011011 10110111110 101100101010 11001111111 11100110111 11011001011 11010101100 111110101100 1111001110 1111111100 110011110111 11101111101 1110111110111 10011011010 1111100011 110010110010 1101110110 1100111101 11000111001 11110110010 110011111100 11010111000 100110100100 11010010110 111111111111 1111110011011 111111101 110011101110 10001011110 11110101100 11111010011 110111011 111110110011 10111011011 110111011 11110111110 1111101011 11100111110 11001110110 1001001110 1011111110111 110101110101 1011101101110 1111011100 11110111011 110111111 1101101101 1101101110 11011111110 10011110110 110111110 110111110111 111011110101 111011111100 1111001011 111100110001 11110101111 11011111011 110010011001 111111111101 01110111111 1011110111 111011101010 11111110110 1111001110010 111110011001 1001111010 11110111111 1111111110 100010111000 1011111100 11000110110 1000111111101 111111011 101101110011 110011111 1111111110010 111110101 1111011110010 11010101101 11111111100 11111110100 111010011000 11011101100 11011110100 1110010100 1111110010 0111100101111 1101111100 111011111100 11101011110 11111010 11101101 10001111 11111101 1111110011 10000111110 0101001101 11110011110 11101111010 110110100 11011001100 10010110010 100010101110 11101111011 1011101111 10110110100 10110100100 1100111011 10101011110 1101101101 11101011011 111010111 11100101110 1100110011 111111110110 110110110 110100110100 11101111100 11110010101 11010111100 11001111100 111100110010 1111111111 101101101000 100101110110 10110101011 110010111010 11010001100 1000111101010 110110111100 10011011000 11010010110 110000110010 10111010100 101100110110 1110010010 1011110100 1010101110 1101100111 0110110110011 110101111111 11001110011 110010010010 111100111 11101111111 1111111011 110100111100 111110010110 1101011101 10110111001 1110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1419
  • Average number of words per stanza: 272
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, t, nous, la, un, le, les, ses, d, de, se, leurs, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words car, tu, si, un, nous, l are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, re, e, es, tien, lui, tre are repeated).

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  • summary of À Henri V;
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