This is an analysis of the poem Le Drapeau De Carillon that begins with:

Pensez-vous quelquefois à ces temps glorieux
Où seuls, abandonnés par la France leur mère,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXabXXXcXXdXXbXXXbXXcX XXXXXedf XbXXXgXX bXbXhXhX iXXXXXdX cjXXXcXX kckXXXXe XXbXjXcXX XXXXbXXX XXiXgXXX cXXXXXXX cXXlXXXX bXXXXXXX ieiXcXcX XXXXdXdX eXXXXbXX jXjeXXXX XXbaXcXX XcXciXiX XbXXaXXX XclXXbcX bXXXXXXX XXcXeXfX XaeaXbXX XXjXXXXX XXXXXc XXXgXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001110 1110011111 111011100 110101111 100111110101 110011100101 111110110010 110111110 10011111010 1011011111 11100101110 111100111011 11111101 11101100010 10101110110 1111011111 10111111 100011111001 11111101110010 11010111101 11101111110 1011101101000 11111010111 11010111010 0111001100 11111101011 10110010100 110001111010 01111111110 110011111111 11110010110 1110111100 1111010111 1011010111 1011010100 10110111001 11110011001 1011110111 100110111100 1111101111100 10100111111 101011010 101011110011 110110101110 110111101011 11010110110 101010110011 110111000110 10101101011 101111101 111100101011 11101111110 1110110 101111101 1111101010 110110100011 01010110111 111111001 111010111 101111110 0101011100 1010001011 11010011010 10011111110 11110100110 1110010110 111100101100 11100011010 11110111 11110111110 01010011110 10010110011 111100011010 1101111100110 111011011 111100110 1010 11111110100 100110010101 100100010100 111100111100 10010110110 101101001011 110101011010 100110011010 110111111011 110111110 111001111010 110011110110 10101111011 0101011011 1111111111 10100111010 0110111011 11010101010 110010010111 011100110010 1110111111 01100111110 1011101101 1001111110 101101101 10110011101 11110100110 1010011101 111101110010 111101110 1010111001010 01010101011 01101111011 111101111001 10010110110 1101110101100 0111011011 110101101001 0110101110 111100101011 1011101110 110011111 11110101010 1011110101 10110101101 100010110001 111001111 110011010100 10100110100 1101111011 10011011010 1100011101001 100011011100 1101101110100 1101010110 111010110010 01110010001 101011001110 110110100111 11011111101 101101110111 0110010110 110110110100 1101010100110 101100111010 1011001101 1111011010 1101100111 010100111010 0101011111 110111100101 11101101111 1100111011 1110011010 101101101 01100101101 01110010110 10011011111 11011111001 11011011111 01110110101 11000101011 101110100010 11011011010 10111010111 1111011110 110011110100 1111011010 1011011001 010100100110 1110100110011 11011110110 111100101101 1110100101 11100111110 11010111101 1011010111 10010011110 01011110010 1101011110 1101110110 11011110011 101100111101 10101110110 11100110110 1111101101 1110100110 1110010111 11011111011 11111111 111111010 111011010 111111110 11111010 01101101011 11011111010 11001110 1011111010 11101011 1010100110 100100011 1110111110 1101010110 11011111010 11010111100 101011111 1101010001 101111011 11010111011 1010100101 111110011 11011111010 1011011111 101100110 11001110 101110011 11101111 111011010 101100110 11101111010 10101101110 1101010010 110101101 10101111101 1101111101 1110111101 1101101111101 1101011111 11111100 111100110011 1011010110100 1110111 111010111001 11111101101 1110111011 1110011100110 1101001101110 111100101011 1101111 1101101 11011111110 110111110 1111110110 1111111010 1110101011 11110010111 1110101110101 1110110101 11111100110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 247
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; un, de, et, les, que, s, la, du, le, son, vous, nos, leurs, re are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ces, vous, o, leurs are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word mourir 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 Le Drapeau De Carillon;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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