This is an analysis of the poem Un Soldat De L'Empire that begins with:
Qu'ils étaient grands ces jours où l'Europe tremblante
Devant l'invincible guerrier,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXc dXXXXXXX XXXaXXXX XaeddXXX XXfXXgXX cXXXhe iXcdXX XXcXeX XXXbXX XXaXXX XXXXjX kXXXXk XXkiiX XXXfXX XXXXXX XdXcXc XdXXXX XXXXXX bbgXXX XXdkXd XXhXXX XXlXil jXcXXX XbXXXX XXXXXc iXXkkX XXeXXX kXXXXX XXXXiX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXdXX XXXXXX XjcdXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,19,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111010 10100100 11010111010 11101110 110111110110 1110100 11111100110 0110010 101011100101 11101100 100100110011 010101110 1110110110 11100100 110100110010 11011000 1011111111 1011000 11011011111 10111010 1110110101 111011 110111101 11100100 101100101000 11111010 110100101101 0100011 111010111101 11111110 111101010010 1011010 1111000111 110111010 11101001101 100111 11011001110 101111 110111111 10101110 101100110101 1011011101 1100111000 1111110100 111010011011 11111010 101110111 10010111010 111100110001 110100101101 11110101011 1110100 111100111001 10110110010 11101111110 1011001110 1111111101 11010 1101101111 101011010 111010101 11010101111 111011111110 1101011 100101101 0110101111010 10001011010 1011001101000 10110111010 01010100 01100110010 10111111100 10011010011 101100101100 110110110011 1111010 10110111010 101100111110 11010011110 111010101110 1011001110 10100101 11000110110 10110110110 1001110101 110100110100 011111111 01011000 111010011010 101011110 111011110 11101011101 1110001110 111111001 1110111011 1101001111 110100110100 110100101100 110111111010 11111010 11010111111 100101110011 1110111101010 11110111101 11101100 11110 101110010011 101101001101 110111101 111000110100 1011001011000 1011110 01010101110 011001110 110110101100 101011110 010011110 10011100 1111011101 10111010111 1101111001 011110110110 11100111110 11000011 111100111100 1011101110100 11111111 11110001010 110010101110 11100101 1110010111 1011010111 010100010010 100110101111 11001011110 1010010 10100110 10101111010 101111111001 11010101010100 10110111011010 11001011 1011111010011 1011001010 101011011010 11101011110 10110111110 100100 11101111010 1100111010 11010110110 100101110110 101011111010 11111010 01100110011 101001110101 101100110111 1100101110110 1011001011 1111101 1000111110 11111111100 01001001110 0111010101100 1111001110100 011110 110000101 11001111010 1010010101 01111111000 0100101011100 010010 1000101111 11111010101 1110111110 1111101100100 111011110100 100110 10001011100 010101101110 010011011 1111111011 110111111011 111011 11001110110 1001111010010 101011100010 1101111110 10100011010 11110110 111011111 010010101101 11011111111 1101001101001 101111111111 11110101 1110011110 11110100111 101100111000 10110111111 111100110110 111110 111011101011 11010010010 11111110110 1010101101 1111111111 10100101 011011110 11001110011 010111111110 10101011101 11100011010 1100100 111101110010 1101101010100 111001110100 11110111 101011101010 10010100 101111111010 11110100110 11010110100 10110111111 01001111101 1111111 11011100011 11110101100 1101111010 01110010011 11101011011 1111110 11011101100 1101011110 1101001110 11101110 101010101011 1101101 10 101101001 111111111 111110001 1100111111000 11101011101 110111 10111110110 11010011101100 111101011100 010110011010 1111101000100 1010101101110 110100111100 1101011110 10110110010 11111111010 11110111110 0110010 1111010111 111100110011 101100100010 11100011001 10011011010 1110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 263
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, les, et, sa, tes, sans, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words aux, il, o, le, ce 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 es, te, e, re, res, ve are repeated).
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