This is an analysis of the poem Les Croix D'Honneur that begins with:
Vieux chevalier, blanchis par tant d’exploits,
Sous vos haillons cachez bien votre croix....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XA XXXX XA XXXX XA XXXX XA XXXX XA XXXX XA XXXX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101110 111010111 11011100 1110010 1110110001 11011011 1101101110 111010111 11111100 01011111 10100111010 1010100110 1101101110 111010111 110111110 1010110111 1110111100 101110111 1101101110 111010111 11111111010 11101111 11111110011 1010111 1101101110 111010111 1111101101 1101110 1110110100 101101110 1101101110 111010111 11111010 10101101 110101101 100111100 1110101110 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Les Croix D'Honneur;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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