This is an analysis of the poem Par Armes Et Vaisseaux Rome Dompta Le Monde that begins with:

Par armes et vaisseaux Rome dompta le monde,
Et pouvait-on juger qu'une seule cité...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX 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: 1111011001 1101101011 1001010110 1111110011101 1111100111 110101110 1001111100 1000111110 101001110111 1111111001 11110111100 0111111110110 1011110001 110101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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, et are repeated.

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