This is an analysis of the poem Fuyons, Dilliers, Fuyons Cette Cruelle Terre that begins with:

Fuyons, Dilliers, fuyons cette cruelle terre,
Fuyons ce bord avare et ce peuple inhumain,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX baab XXX XXa
  • 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: 101010111 101110111100 1111011001 11110111111110 10110010011 01101101101 110011101 1100101000101 1111110100100 111100100110 1111110101011 111100101101 100110110111 101110011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; fuyons, on, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fuyons, on are repeated.

    The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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