This is an analysis of the poem Heureux Celui Qui Peut Longtemps Suivre La Guerre that begins with:
Heureux celui qui peut longtemps suivre la guerre
Sans mort, ou sans blessure, ou sans longue prison !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX XXba XXc Xac
- 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: 10101110111 11111011110 101100110110 111111111 10111111010 110110110 101110110010 111011110101 1011111110 10111001110 1011111111 10111011011 11110111011 1011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; sans, ou, de, heureux, peut, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word heureux is repeated.
The author used the same word heureux at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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