This is an analysis of the poem Castelfidardo that begins with:

Prenant pour dieu l'argent et pour guide le doute,
Des antiques vertus abandonnant la route...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXX XXXcXX XXdXXd XXXbXX XXXeXX XXXXXX XXXXXX fXXc XXXX XfbX bgXX XXaX XXXb XXXX XXdffX XfXXXX XXXXcX XXXXXXXX fXfXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXdXegX XXXXXXgf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,6,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011101 10110100011 1101111111 11101101011 1010111110 11010110110 101100110110 011101110 110110110011 11010110011 10100111111 10111110111 11101011100 1011100110 101111001110 10110011 111101011 010011101110 111010010 11010101101 011101111 11011110011 1011001011000 1011111101 1100110110 111110100110 111001111 11100111000 110111110100 011001010000 100011111001 1101111110 11010110100 10111011100 111111100 0101111110 1001111 1111011101 111110010100 1111111100 1101010010 110111010 111001111 111010110111 110100001010 11110011111 111111111 1111011101 11110011110 10110110101100 11110111000 111011111101 111010110111 1111111100 111110110010 11011011001 11110011110 110011101110 110111001011 1111111011 101011110110 111111010110 111011110100 111001110101 0110011110 11011110011 110110111110 11101111000 1101100110100 101010111111 1110110100 11011101100 111111111111 11111001 10111111 11110110010 1101111110 1101111110 1110100101 11011111110 111101111010 11011100011 111100111011 1111111011 11100111101 1101110011 01110111011 101111 111001000 1111110 10100110 11101 1001101 1110011 10011110 10011010 10011010 111110 11011101 0111000 1110011 111010 1011010 0101110 1101111 1011111 110101100 1101010 11111 1001110 1111010 1110110 11011011 111110 11101110 11101 11100011 10101 1011001 1100110 11011110 10111010 101110100 1110100 1111110 11011010 1110011 11011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • 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; les, de, la, e, ce, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words avez, les, malgr are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, res are repeated).

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

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