This is an analysis of the poem Fête Nationale that begins with:

Jour de saint Jean-Baptiste, ô fête glorieuse !
Tu portes avec toi la trace radieuse...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX bbXXcX XXXXdXXa XXXXdXdX XXXXXaXd XXXXcXcX XXXXXXXe fXfXeaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101110 1101011110 01110110 10011110011 1101000110100 11111010 11101010101 11110010011 0101110 10011111 11011101100 1111011 10110110 111111 1110100 1011100 111111 1111110 110101010 1001101 1100110 111111 111110 10101011 1011101 01101011 111011101 11011101 1010100 110110 1111100 10101011 0111101 1111011 10100110 10001010 1110101 1100011 0101110 110111 0111110 1100111 11101100 11101010 110010111100 10110011110 110101010100 11011001110 111010111000 110111101 11010111100 111010100001 100111111010 10011110101 10111100010 1110011110011 11010010110 101101011011 10101011110 11101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, nos, et, notre, la are repeated.

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

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

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

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

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