This is an analysis of the poem Ode A La Fortune that begins with:

Fortine dont la main couronne
Les forfaits les plus inouis,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaaX XXXXXbXXXX XcXcXXaXXX XXXXddXXXX XXaXXXXcXX XbXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110 1101110 01101100 1011010 10011010 1110110 10001110 1011101010 100111010 1110110 1011110 1111010 1011110 01111001 1010111 1111001 1011011 11101110 11011100 11111110 1111011 11010010 100010010 11101010 10001010 11010 1111111 111101011 0111010 111010110 111100110 10000100 111011010 11101110 1111110 11010010 1111100 11011100 100110100 1111010 101001110 11000111 011101011 11110111 1110110 101111100 11101100 10011111 011111010 11011100 101101000 1101111 101011100 01100010 11110110 11011001 11110 1111010 01111 1010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, des are repeated.

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

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