This is an analysis of the poem À Napoléon that begins with:

De lumière et d’obscurité,
De néant et de gloire étonnant assemblage,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXaXXXbXXXXXcdXXdXXXXXeXXXXXbXXXXXXXfXgXXXgXhXiXeXXXXXhfXXXXXXXgXXXXXejXKgXbXcXXXGjXXXXXXeXjXKgXXbXXdXXXXXXGJdhXXhXXXXjXkgXXXXXXheXXXGJfeXXddeXcXcXXXXXXXiXXXgXXgXXXXXjXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 177,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101100 0110110010 110111110 11101111110 1111010 111110111010 111011100 110111111011 1011010 1110100110 111010110 11011 00110011110 10100111010 10101111011 1011011 1010101010110 11010011011 1101100110100 100001010111 110100111 11101011011 11100110 100101010010 10001001 11111110111 1110001111 11011111010 101101111 11111101 11010011010 1010111 1111010100 1101111101100 10110111100 1011111 1001101010101 111110110100 110101111 11110110110 110001111 1111011 1111011100 11000111100 110101110 010100101001 100101111101100 110011100111 1101111101110 1101101010011 1101110110 11101111111 1001110 1111111010 10011011010 10101011111 1110101011011 11010110111 111100110010 1100110 01011011110 1001011100 1011001110 111010110011 110011100111 11110010111 110101101 01111001 110011110110 110011101 11010011101 111101011 111101 111101010111 010011001 11101101111 10111111 111101011 111011110101 110011010100 1111111 11100111010 110101111010 101111111 11011100110111 0111011110111 11010011011 110100 111001101100 0110110011 1111101 1001110010 100101 101001 111101010111 01101101 11101101111 10111111 11111100 0111111111000 11111010 111011110100 1111110111 11101011010 11000110 1111011110 11101111111 1110110 11010111010 101111111 11011100110111 0111011110111 110110111011 11111110011 1011010 1100100 11001111111111 1111110110 1100110100 11111110 01110100011 111110011011 11101011 11101010111 11111011 01010110110 100011111111 111100011111 11011011 110100110110 11110001 11110011010 111110111001 11111010 1110001111 1110011111010 11011100110111 0111011110111 101101101010 101001011011 11011011110 11100010 110110011 1111111001 11011001 1110111001 10011111100 110111111100 1011100101011 111011110110 11101010101 0110110111 101111 11011101110 11110111100 10110 1111010011 111101111010 1111 111110111100 10111111010 01011011110 111101110 1110110 10101110111 100111110110 101101011101 11100110 11110100110 1011110111 111000111100 11111110100 0110111110 10101101110 10010110111 111111111 01100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7658
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1496
  • Amount of lines: 177
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; de, ton, tes, tu, l, je, est, d, des, et, si, e, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, ton, conservez, on, je, les, c, si are repeated.

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

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  • summary of À Napoléon;
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  • history of its creation;
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