This is an analysis of the poem Ma France that begins with:

Français je suis, je m'en vante,
Et très haut, très clair, très fort,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXB XXXcXdXd XXXcXXXX aXXaXXXB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111 1111111 11010101 011111010 1101011 10101111 11111011 11111 11101 1110110 1010110 11100011 1111100 1100 10111110 1101001 111001 1011111 1011111 1111101 1000010 1110110 011011 111101110 101111 11111010 110111101 1111111 1101011 10101111 11111011 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, s, tr are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ma, c'est, la are repeated.

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  • summary of Ma France;
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