This is an analysis of the poem Sur Les Ruines De Sébastopol that begins with:

Aux champs de la Tauride, il est une colline
D'où l'oeil voit, en suivant la route qui s'incline,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa XXXbXX XXXXXc XdeXXX XXXXXX bXXXfX gXhXXh XgcXXX XXcXXb XXXXiX XXXccX XXXcXa XXXbXX XXXcXX XXXijX kkXXdX XXeXbX XXfXXX XXXXaX XXbXXX dXXXXX XiXXfX XgXjXX XXXXXh XXhXXh lXhgXh XXcXXc gXdcca XXXXlX XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101110 11111011110 1001110100 11010111100 11010011100 11110011110 01110110010 010010010110 1110001111011 11110111111 101110101010 1101111111 1111011101 111111110 1110101010 110101111110 11010010110 01110110110 11101111101 11011011 111001101 111101100100 1001111011100 11110 1110111010010 10111110110 100100111100 111100100111 1011110011 110100 110110111 111101111000 1101101100 1110110110 1010111111 01011 10010101111 1110111001100 110110111010 100111100 1101011100 1111 1110111111111 1111110101 101111111 11011101010 111100110110 11110 11011101011 111111110 1001011110100 1101111 1101100110111 111101 1001001111 11101110110 11011010110 11011110010 1101011101110 100110 1101001101100 11111100100 110100011010 101111001 111010011111 011010 110010110110 11010110110 1110011100 110100100101 11001110010 110101 011001001010 11111110010 1110101111 1000110100111 11110111000 100100 11001101100 10101111100 01100101110 11011011010 01111011001 111110 10010011110 11010011100 10100101000 10111001101100 11100111111 111 101001110010 10111011011 111101110010 1010001011 1110111111 1101011010 11110111010 01111011110 0111111011 111101111110 1100111111 1100111101 11111011110 1101011011 11010101101010 101011110 1100011110 110011110 0111010100 10101011110 110101110 100111101100 11101101011 11100110110 1011011 111100111 11101110110 110110011 1101110111 100110110110 111001011111 11011110101 11010010110 110101100001 1101111101 110010111110 110011101 1111111001100 11110100111 01101110100 1110111011 01011011011 111111110011 111010010101 10100110101 101001111111 0100111010 11110110011 110100111110 10110110110 10110000110 1011111110 110101110 0111101111 101100110 110100010011 111011111100 11110110100 1110111101 1101101110 11001011010110 01010111111 11111110111 10011111011 11111011110 110110 11101110101 11011110110 11101011101 11001110010 1111111011 111011 1111111010101 101100110011 1111110011 110010110011 111011111111 110010 10111101100 1011111010 11100001010 1100101111 10011110110 110100 111011101 0101100110010 111110110111 11001101010 010101101 11110 101100111010 11101011110 1111110011 01010011100 10110011100 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 186
  • 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; la, de, e, ces, des, et, puissance, c'est, le, leur, sa, un, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mon, des, o, a, la, toi, un are repeated.

    The author used the same word o 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 te, e, me, re are repeated).

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