This is an analysis of the poem Au Roy that begins with:

Est-il vrai, grand Monarque, et puis-je me vanter
Que tu prennes plaisir à me ressusciter ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXbXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXcaaXXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101111110 11101011000 1010010110110 10011110011 111110011010 11111010110 11101111 1111110111 1111001110 1010101100010 11100101100 1011111110 111100100110 1111101100010 100110101 1001111101 10011101100 1110100110 01111111110 1001011110100 1111111101 11101101010 111101100100 111011110100 10101101 1001111111 111011101110 1100111111110 10110110110 01101101010111 1110111111110 111111100100 110101101100 111011011000 111111011111 101011111 101100111 1111111110 1110111111 1100111101 1111110110 101011010000 111101110100 11111100100 1111011111101 111111011101 111111110011 111100111101 11010010111 110111111010 100101111101 101110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2501
  • Average number of words per stanza: 445
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

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  • summary of Au Roy;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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