This is an analysis of the poem La Dernière Iroquoise that begins with:

Nous sommes sur les bords du Saint-Laurent sauvage.
Le fleuve, déployant l'orbe de son rivage,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX X XXXcXd XeXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXX XXXfXX X XXgXXg XXXXXX XXXgXf XXgfXg XXbXcX XXdXgX XXXhXX XXXgXX X XXdXXX XXXXXd aXXXXf XXihhX XXfXXf e XXXXXd jXbkkX XXdXXd XXXXXX XaXhhX iXXXXX XaXXXX XXjXXX XXXXXX e XXXXXi XXXXhX X aXXgXX XXgXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,1,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111011010 011010110 110101111 10110110111 1111111001 10011010 01011101111 111100110111 11100111010 1111110010 1111101100010 1010110 10011011100 101100111010 1011111000 1011110101010 1010111 101110 1 10111011011 1111100111 111110111110 1101111011 11111010010 1011011 11110111 011101101111011 1111111100 1111101111100 111011111100 1100110 10101111011 1111100011 111011111 101001100 01111100100 1011101 11101011010 1111011101 11110010011 11110011110 110101110110 011011 11111111 111101110 111111101 11111101101 1010011110 1111100 1 111111011010 111011100100 101101110001 1001101101000 10100101010 11101110101 1101110111 11110101110 11010110 1110110011 111100111111 1101100 1110101111 110110110111 100111101001 011011110111 10110010010 100110100111 11011101110 1111111010 1110001 111001101 1100111101 10110011 110110110100 110100011100 11001011101 1110100111000 100110110101 110011110110 111111111101 01111110110 1111101 1111111010010 11110010101 101000110 10101011001 11110101000 11011011010 110011100110 101101010 1010101100 111101100100 1101101011000 10110100 10011110101 101100111101 1111110 1 11111111110 11011111011 1111110111 111110111 01101110 110010 110010111111 1101110110110 1111110110 111101110 10110110110 10111111 111011111111 100100111 1111011010 11010111100 11010110110 10101001 11101111 11011011110 10111101111 11001110010 1001101110110 1100110 11111101110 101110011100 0101111111 11111111110 11111111110 1101101 1 100111100110 01111111010 0111101100 111111111111 10110110011 0111010 111011101 0101011001 11011011101 101111101100 101111111100 10110010 100111111 111110111100 11011110101 1110011101 01010101001 1101010 10010011001 11010110111 101010101110 1011110011 11111111011 01111110 100110100011 10101111111 111101110 11111101010 11101111010 01111001 1011011001 1110111010 11011111110 111111111011 11011111 1101110 1110110110 1111011011 110101010 1101111100 111001110 1111000 10101001111 10010100110 1101011110 1100101110 1111011100 0110100 1111111111 111111111 110110111 11101110010 10101011010 101110 1 101110111010 111111110 1111011110 1110101110 10111101111 101111 110101110011 1011101110011 01111111110 1111101111 11111110110 1101100 110 01001011010 10101010111 1110101110 1101111101 111101111 11010110 11011111110 1110111110 100111111011 011111111110 01111001 110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 215
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; la, et, de, leurs, un, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, elle, la, est are repeated.

    The author used the same words te, un at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, ve, e, te, rive, mes, bres, le, tres are repeated).

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  • summary of La Dernière Iroquoise;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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