This is an analysis of the poem Le Manteau Du Roi that begins with:

Quand le roi Christian, au palais des aïeux,
Eut recouvré la pourpre et l'or du diadème,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXX aXX XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1011010111 110111101 101101010101 111110111 100 100101110 0101101001 1001111111 1011111111 1101011010101 11110110011 11001010010 11100101110 100101111101 11001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; le, et, de are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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  • summary of Le Manteau Du Roi;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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