This is an analysis of the poem Mil Huit Cent Trente-Six that begins with:

Dieu l’ordonne, et je vous en prie,
Moi qui vais chantant sur vos pas ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacXXXcX dXdeXXXffX XXgXXXXXXX XXgXbXXhhX XbXXXhXXXX XXXXXXdXXX XXXXXXXcXX XeXXaXcXgX XXXXcXXXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111111 11110111 1111100100 1111111 1111111 0111100 10010110 1101001 1101111 010101 1110111 111010010 1011101 111101 11011 1111001 11011001 11111111 01100111 1011110 10011110 100111011 11010011 100110 1111111 10100110 111100 1010110 11111100 1110010 1001110 0110100 101111 101001 10111100 1101111 1101010 110101010 1111110 101101 11111111 111011110 110111 11101100 1010111 11101101 11010100 1011010 110111111 11101110 111111110 1000110 0111100 0110111 11011110 111010110 10111111 11111010 111101100 1010111 11111011 1101110 110100 11001010 1101100 1111100 101110 1011101 01011010 1011100 10110 10010011 10101101 10111110 11101100 100110 10111111 1100111 1111111 10101010 10110010 1011100110 1010001 01111110 11111011 1101010 1011111 11011 1001101 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words si, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, mes, te are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rien connects the lines.

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  • summary of Mil Huit Cent Trente-Six;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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