This is an analysis of the poem Christophe Colomb that begins with:

Eh ! qui du grand Colomb ne connaît point l'histoire,
Lui dont un nouveau monde éternisa la gloire ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXbcXdXeXffXXXXeXXXXXdXggXXXXccaXXXXXXdaaXXcXXXfXfXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 76,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101110110 101111110011 1010001010 1110101110 111010110010 110110111 101110110110 110101101 1110101001000 1111010111 101110110111 101001010 11001010110 11110100010 111111011 110101111011 1101011001 111111110110 11110101111 11111010101 10101101110 1011111011 101111100001 11011110110 1111011110110 10001110010110 1101111110 1101111100101 110111111 1100001111010 110110101010 0100011010010 10001011110 11101111100 11010001101 11011011010 1110110101 11111011101 111111001 0110111101011 1101101110 111010110010 111100010111 11110011010 101101111101 101010100110 100100011001 110110110011 11101110110 1110011100 111110111011 110011111110 1110101111111 110110010 1111111111101 011011111011 1101011010 111011110 11011111100 11110111011 10111110100 1100101101110 1011111111 111110101110 101101110111 111101111010 010011111 10110001110 1101110011 01011011111 10110111111 01010011011 101010110101 11001110011 11001111101 1011110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3648
  • Average number of words per stanza: 645
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; du, les, ces, la, leur, de, le, ce, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mais is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mit, lui are repeated).

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  • summary of Christophe Colomb;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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