This is an analysis of the poem France, Mère Des Arts, Des Armes Et Des Lois, that begins with:

France, mère des arts, des armes et des lois,
Tu m'as nourri longtemps du lait de ta mamelle :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111111110 111010010110 11110111010 1110011110111 11111110100 1111111001 1111110 1110111111 1011111011 1111010011110 1101011011 111110101101 1111001011110 1111111001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; des, r are repeated.

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