This is an analysis of the poem L'Ancien Regime that begins with:
Who has a thing to bring
For a gift to our lord the king, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbccddaA AAeeffggaA AAhhiijjaA AAkkllffaA AAffllggaA AAkkddXXaA AAmmggbbaA AAnnXeffaAXaAccffeeaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 10101101 111101 011111 11100001 00101001 110100 0101101 101001 01101111 110101 10101101 010111 101101 1101011 1100111 1010101 0011101 1001001 01101111 110101 10101101 010111 11101001 111010110 1011110010 1100101 001111001 1001011 01101111 110101 10101101 010111 1001011 11101001 01011011 100101 1111001 1001011 01101111 110101 10101101 01001001 10001011 0110101 1110101 11100101 0010001 10001101 01101111 110101 10101101 010111 11101 1011011 1010111 111001101 111011 1001011 01101111 110101 10101101 0101101 01101011 0011000001 11100101 00101011 01101101 100101 01101111 110101 10101101 111101 011101 01001100 010101 11111011 01101001 01011001 01101111 1101101 10101101 0101101 00100101 11000111 11001001 10110101 10110101 01001011 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, with, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word king at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of L'Ancien Regime;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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