This is an analysis of the poem À Henry W. Longfellow that begins with:
Poëte, on t'applaudit ! poëte, on te couronne !
Le laurier du vainqueur sur ta tête rayonne ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX aXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011110 01001011110 01011111110 11001111111 11110101100 11111111111011 1010111011111 110101110101 1111110100 1001111011 1101100111 111011110 1111011101 11010011111 1101111010 110111110110 111011110110 11001011001 11110110110 11111110100 100100110 10111101001 111010101111 10111110111 1010010111 1110101011 11111110010 1101011110 10010010110 1011111011 011111101101100 100110010100 11100111110 1011110110111 11101011110 010110101100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; te, on, c', nous, de, et, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, c' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve, rive are repeated).
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