This is an analysis of the poem Ô Versaille! that begins with:

... Ô Versaille ! ô regrets ! ô bosquets ravissans,
Chefs-d'oeuvre d'un grand roi, de Le Nôtre et des ans !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110100 11111001111 1101111110110 11011010111 11101110011 1100101101 101011101111 111110100011 1111110110 10001001100 11110110100 1110010011 101010011001 11010010011 1010010111111 01101011010 110100010011 11111110110 11110110110 10111011010 11110110011 11011011011 10001011001 1110101011100 1101010010 11010101111 101110110011 1111111011 10111110011 110100111010 10011011010 110111110110 11011011111 100101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1662
  • Average number of words per stanza: 289
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; leurs, ces, et, vous are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Ô Versaille!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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