Guerre D'Italie by Octave Cremazie: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Guerre D'Italie that begins with:

Italie, en combats terre toujours féconde,
Toi, dont l'antique gloire illumine le monde ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXX bXXXXc XXXXXX XXdXeX XfgfXX fXXXXd XXXXXh hhXXfX XafiiX XiXXXX XeXhXX XiXbXX XXXhXX XXXjXX XXXfXX dXXXXXXX fXXXXXXX XXXXXXhX aXXdXXXX XXXXXXXX XgjXXXXX XjXXXXXcdXXXXXXXaXXbgXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,8,8,8,8,8,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011101 1110110001 10100001101 1101100101100 111011111011 110110100101 01010100100 110110111 110101110001 110010111000 11110100110 100101101111 101011011100 10101101011100 110001011010 10110111010 010100111110 101111010 0111001011100 110110111101 11101100110 1010101100100 11101111101 100111111 10111110100 110101101111 111111010 11110100101 1111011101 0011001001 01010011011 1101011 1101001011 1010010101 101011110 1101110101110 1010110100111 11010011111 11010110010 1101010110 11001010111 1110110110 111111001 1111001010 111101110 111100111001 111111101 111011 10111101011 1000111001 110101111 11110100100 1111001111100 11110100 01110011011 11101111111 10111100 101100110110 10110111010 1011010 1111111011 1010101110 0110101 1101010110111 111010111110 101101 11011111110 10101111010 10001010 10011111100 111111111010 11001110 11101010111000 1100101110100 1011001 1111111101 1111100110 11110111 110111010110 011010110011 1100100 11110111011 101111010111 11100100 101011110010 11010101010110 101110 1111110101 11010110011 11100110 111011 1110110 111010 1101011 1101010 1110111 111110 1101111 1110101 1101110 11110010 11110110 11101011 1111100 11111111 1111110 111010 10100101 110111 11111011 1101110 1111100 100011010 10011010 111101 111110 11101 1001011 110110 111110 101011100 1111010 111011100 11011011 11101000 10111010 1011011 1101110 1011001 0100010 101010110 1100111 11111011 1011100 1111110 1001110 11100100 1111100 1111011010 010110011111 11111110101 11111110 1101010110 1101110111 11110111101 110101110111 1111001110111 1001111011 11001011111 1101110111 1011101001000 11011010 1111011011 11101111010 11100110001 1101111110 0110011101 1101001011100 110111101010 11011101001 10111111001 011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 163
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; la, de, les, o, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words d, aux, qui, tu, o are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Guerre D'Italie;
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