This is an analysis of the poem Épitre À M. Firmin Didot that begins with:

Quand les muses, pleurant la gloire de la France,
Avec des souvenirs lui rendent l’espérance,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXcXXdXXdXXXaaXbXXXXXXXXXeXfggXXXXXXXXffXXXhXbiXXXXXXXXcXXXajXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXiXbXXXXddXXXbXXXXXXiiXXXXXcXXaaXXXXXXkkXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXecXXXXXXdXX XXaXXXXXXXXXjXiXXaXXXdXXXhXXXeXXXbbXXXXXXXbbXXXXXXiXXXXXXcca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 148,60,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011011 101101101010 11100011111 11101100010 110110011 11110111 100111010111 111110010110 10100100100 1111101101 1010110011 111110001100 111111111101 101100010100 111010111100 11011110110 1111110110 11010011101 100111111 10100110011 10111011100 10101011000 11010000110 101001110011 10100101110 110110110010 10101010100 111010101000 1011011011 1001111111 10011011110 110111110011 11001110110 11101101 110100111011 111001010 1100101110 11011101101 1110011001 100110101 1001111101 110011001 1110001011 1111101001 1010111010 0111001101 11100111010 10001111001 1111111011 11010010001 1101110110 111000101 11111111 11011001 100110110100 11110110010 11100110010 1111111011 11011011 11101101 1010011111 111110101110 10110101110 1011010111 110100111010 00101111001 1001111100 100111111100 11011110110 110100111100 11011011111 1111011111 1010001110 01011111110 11110110100 10111011111 1010111110 1110111001 111111111 101101101011 101111011 111000111100 11100100110 1101110001 0111011111 1110011011 111001001100 0110111010 1011110110 111110111000 1011101100 11110011001 1111011010 1111010011 1101011010 110111110111 11101011101110 1111011011100 11110111110 1011111101 111101101 111101101111 11010010110 1100111111 11111011111 1011010110 11001110110 0111111100 111011110 1111001111 101111111 111110010110 1101110101010 1010011110 11011011010 111010110111 101111000 1111110110 110111100100 101101110101 110011011010 11100110100 11111110010 110110111010 111101100 100011011000 100110110110 10111101011 011001111 101111011 111100110010 01101001110 101110110010 11110001010 10111111110 1101010111 1111010010 10110110011 01011110111 11100111110 1110111101000 1010111110100 11001110 1101011110 111011011 11101101 11110101111 10110010010 1101011010 1111001111000 110100101110 10001011111 1011010101 010111111110 111110100110 10010110111 110100101011 1101001110 1010011111010 111101111110 111111110 11011111010 1011111101110 1101011010 1110011010 110101110011 101110110010 100011011010 11011001011 11100101111 111110111110 11111111110 101111011 1011111001 1111101111010 101100100110 11110101111 101100101011 11100011110 10111011110 11111011110 1101001101 110100101101 11010010001 11010110110 11110111110 10100111100 110110110010 101111111100 10110111110 11001001 1011111011 11010110101 10101110110 11110111100 111110101001 01010010110 10110101100 101110110110 1111111010 11011100110 1111011110 11101111100 1101110111 11010110110 10110011011 10111111101 11110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4795
  • Average number of words per stanza: 906
  • Amount of lines: 208
  • 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; de, s, la, comme, elle, le, les, se, est, on, des, l, d, et, mes are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, tre, s, es, e, me, veille, le are repeated).

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  • summary of Épitre À M. Firmin Didot;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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