This is an analysis of the poem Le Potowatomis that begins with:
Il est là sombre et fier ; sur la forêt immense,
Où ses pères ont vu resplendir leur puissance,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXXXb XXXXXX aaXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111101 111111100110 111110110110 11101111100 1111001011010 1000111 101011111110 11010011010 11011111011 11111101011 101010100111 010011 111111110100 011011000100 1101011110 11011100101 110011111100 10110010 11111011011110 11111110011 11110111110 111110111101 111010101011 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, de, les are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ves is repeated).
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- summary of Le Potowatomis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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