This is an analysis of the poem A Map Of Verona that begins with:

Quelle belle heure, quels bons bras
me rendront ces régions d'où mes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX Xbcb Xded cXae Xcfc cbgb hifi Xgcg cfgf ceee ajcj XhghXgcgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111111 1101111 101110100 01001001001110 001010111001001 11001010111010 111011111011 0101010010010 10111010101 1100010011011 1111010001 101111110110 01001000101 10110101011 11010110101 1011010010010 1111101001001 010100111010 111110100101 11010111110 11100100111 111101010010 11010010011 1111011111 1101111111 001011100010 1101010101 0010010111101 0101100100100 001001001001010 110010010101 010010101010 10010010100 0100110101110 101010101001 1100101001010 1101111101 11010100011 1111111111 010110101010 11111110101 101011011101010 001001111101 011100111010 10110100101 0101101010011 10110110101001 101100100101 11110111001 0111110101 11011100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, what are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of A Map Of Verona;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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