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

« Des bords du Dniéper aux mers de l'Amérique,
« Des rivages du Don aux flots de la Baltique,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXX XXXbXX cXXXXa XXdXXe XfafXX XXXXXX XXXXXX bXXXXX fXXXfg XXXXhX eXXXXX XXcXXX XXXXXX aXXggh ggXfXX XXdXXXXXcXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010 110001110110 1110111110 1101110011 11010110110 1110010 1100111101 111101101 10011111111 11010110100 1011111000 11110 11100110110 1111111111 110111111110 10101100110 0111011010 011100 111101110 11001111010 0111010110 1010111101 1111111001 1010 111111110100 11010010011 100001110011 1110011110 11010100110 10110 110111111 110011110100 11111110110111 11110111100 111111011111100 111001 110100100110 1110101001101 11011111110 1101111101011 11101011010 101100 011001101111 1100101101 111010110100 1101101011010 11111001101110 111100 01001110010 1111001111 10011101010 110011110110 101001111010 1111 101111010011 100101110 101110111101 110110111010 111001100100 110110 1110011011 110100111 11111011001 1111110010 11011111011 111110 1110111110 11010010001 111011111010 11011111110 1110011111010 110110 11101101 10011011110 111000100100 11011010110 111001111 1101010 111101001000 1101001101000 1101010110 111101100100 110101111000 01110 11110101101 1110101011 111100101010 1001110011 11101110 10101 11111100111 11110100110 011010111010 10001110100 11110011111 1010 111001001110 110010111010 11111101110 1111101100101 100101110111 101110 1110011101100 0110101111000 10010110110 11001011001 11101111010 011100 1110111101 11100110100 1101001010 11010100011 101010110101 10110
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, les, et, la, je, pas, mes, aux, des are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word a 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 e is repeated).

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  • summary of La Guerre D'Orient;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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