This is an analysis of the poem Chant Des Musulmans that begins with:

« Allah ! Dieu seul est grand et gloire à son prophète !
« Il exauce toujours, au fort de la tempête,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXAXX XXbXcX XXdXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXbXdX XXXXXX XXXcXX XXXAXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110111111 1101011011 110110 1101001111 10101111010 111010 11101010100 1110110110011 10110001 10110010100 1110111001 1110100 101001111 1001011101010 1101101 1111111110 1101010110 0111010 011100111 01001111110 11010100 111011110100 110111111000 111110 011000111011 1010011100 11110 0110011110 01101111110 011011 110101111100 11100111000 1111010 1011111010 11001111101 1001001 1000100110100 10101111100 11111110 10011010100 101100110011 1101000 1101111110 101100100110 11011100 111001001111 111101001 011010 10110111111 1101011011 110110 1101001111 10101111010 111010 110111010100 110101110101 110111100110 101100110110 1110111110 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • 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, de, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.

    The author used the same word comme 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 te, res, me are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word l'orient at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Chant Des Musulmans;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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