This is an analysis of the poem Trois Jours De Christophe Colomb that begins with:

En Europe! en Europe!-Espérez!-Plus d’espoir?
Trois jours, leur dit Colomb, et je vous donne un monde...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXccXXXaXXXXXXXXXXdXeXXXXeXXXXXXXXXdcXfXfbXXXadXdXXXbbXgagdhXXXXifiXdXXXXeXXdXXjXXXXjXjXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXXbXXegXgiXeeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbeXXdXXXXXdXXXgXXbXdXdXXXdXXXXXXXXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 170,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011010110 1111101111111 111010111101 10010010010 1111110011010 111100101010 111011101001 101111111110 111111110111 11101111111 01011010100 1111110111 1010011000 111100110010 110010110011 101011011 1011011110 1001000111 101001011010 011111111100 101011011011 1111111111 10110001101 11110110110 1111111110 111010111010 110010110110 110110110110 11011110110 1110111110110 111010101010 1100101101000 1111011011110 101011110100 1011011100 011001011110 1111111101 11110110111 0011111111 111111011110 010101111011 101101111010 101111111111 10101110101 110101110110 111110111011 111011110000 010111110101 11010101101110 100010111111 1111110111 10011111111 1111111100 010110110110 1011101111111 11111111001 1111010110 1110110111 111110111 11011111101 1011111111 1111001010 10011001110 01111110 11011111010 0011011101 1011011110100 10110110010 101111101100 101100111010 11111101 1101001110100 10101111100 10111110110 10010101110 1110011111001 10011101110100 111001011110 111111110 01110101 11110001100 101100110001 110110111 110101110110 110110100110 10101111000 11101001111 11110010110 11001010101 111110110110 0111011101 1111010010 1011101110 111011001 11111111001 111011111110 11010110111 110100111100 11001011110 1111111100 11101101110 011110110 1110111100 11100111111 111111110010 100111101 11010101101 011010100110 10110111110 1001101001 11101110100 1101000110 111000010010 10110111110 10110011100 11011111001 111010101011 111111110 110111111010 1011111010110 110110101110 110111111110 1100100111011 0110011111 00110111100 110111110110 1111101110 11101010100 1011011110 111101110110 11011000111010 101110011010 110010111111 11100011010 1110010111110 100011110110 111101111011 1111011010 110010111110 1110011010 11011110 11101010100 101001101 11010010110 1111011011 101111101100 111010011011 11001011101 111110101110 110001110111011 11011101110 110110110111 1111001011 11100111010 1010111111 100111111001 0110101010 11101110111 11110111110 101110011100 10111001101 11111111 11011111111 1111000110 11101111100 11010110100 11111111 111010111010 111101111 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1564
  • Amount of lines: 170
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, l, il, marche, le, jour, ces, d, la, tes, mort, les, ses, s, dans, un, de, des, va, terre are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, les, des, va are repeated.

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

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