This is an analysis of the poem Le Montmorency that begins with:

Au détour du courant où le flot qui la ronge
Embrasse les contours de l'Ile d'Orléans,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX 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: 11010101111 101110110 11111011 1110011011 1000101101 10001011110 11010110111 11011011010 10010010110 11000110100 11011111011 01010001010 11011010010 11100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; le is repeated.

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  • summary of Le Montmorency;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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