This is an analysis of the poem À Léon Xiii that begins with:
Sur tous les meurt-de-faim qu'épuise la corvée,
Sur tous les révoltés qu'étrangle le carcan,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111011011 111110010 10111011010 1101011111 11110111 111101100100 11111010110 11110111011 1110111010 1101011110 110110111 11111011101 1001101110011010 101110101010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; sur, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sur is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of À Léon Xiii;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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