This is an analysis of the poem Merlin De Thionville that begins with:

Français régénérés de la grande semaine,
Suivons le deuil nouveau que la Liberté mène !...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXbXbXXcdXXXXXeXcfXXX X XXXXgXchhffcXiidXccXXhhXXXeXXbXjXXcXXcXXXXXXXiXk k XXXXXXjXXXXacXXXccXjXXXXXX XXXXXbXdXXXXXXlhXXXXXXXlXXXXXXXlllcdXXXXXbXiXXhX XXXXXgXXXXXlXXcXiXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,1,48,1,26,48,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101110 10011111101 11111101 111111110 1101001101 10010011110 1101100111 11111111010 1111100111 10101011110 11110111010 11011011100 111101101100 11111110100 1111100111111 10111110011 101101110110 1111011101 1101001110 1011110111 101101001100 1010111100 1011110111 11010111001 10100111010 11011010111 11101110110 11111110 100101111100 110101101 111110101110 110001010101 111100110110 11101010011 11011111110 11001110010 1110110110 110101111 11010110110 10110011111 111101011 1111001100111 1110011100 110001110111 1101101111 10011011111 10001101000110 110111111010 11010010011 11011111110 111000110011 111110111010 010010100101 1000111011 10110111011 11011011011 0101101101110 1011010111 11110011011 100001110101 0100111011 1110011111 111000011110 111111101011 111011110 01010010011 11100100111 11111010110 11110001101 100011110 1111101100110 1101001101 101111011111 11101111110 1111011110001 1111110011 10110111110 1110111110 1111101010 11010111110 1110011110111 11001010010 1111111010 11101110 10111101011 1001111011 11111111010 11001101010 111001110 1101101110 1111110101 1110110101 101100111011 011111100 111110100010 101001101110 10101011101 1101011111 11011110 111001111100 11110111110 1101100110 110111100011 1111011111 111110010 111001110 111100010100 11101110110 1111011010 1000101101 11101111010 0101001100 1111011110 10111110 111010110100 01101101011 11110111100 1101001110 1011111110 111010101011 1101110111100 1111110100 1111111100 01011111100 1110101001110 1111011101000 1111111011001 1100010101 11101100110 0111100101100 101111110100 11110111100 110101101110 10011111011 100110100010 101101011 111100101001 1101110110011 1110101110 10010111011 11111011100 1001111100 1101001101 111101110111 100010101110 1100101101100 11110101111 11100100101 111011111 11011010011 111111111111 111001100 1111110110 11101010111 11111110100 1110111011111 11111110110 1001111101000 111011011111 11001010011 10111001 110011111000 111100110100 1101001110 11101110111 111101101111 10010011110 100110111010 110101100 101101110 101110010 11001101011 101111110 1000111100 110110110011 11101110 101100110111 111010010 11011011010 1011111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 232
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; la, en, s, les, l, il, le, de, t, d, un are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, tue, lui, fort, tes, tre, re, ges, pas, me are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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