This is an analysis of the poem L'Empire D'Assyrie Est Tout Réduit En Cendre… [xxxi À Xl] that begins with:

XXXI.
L’Empire d’Assyrie est tout réduit en cendre,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXa X XaXa X bbXX X XXXX X Xccc X dXdX X XaXa X XXcX X eXeX X aXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1010011111 11111001101 11110010100 111010101110 1 111100110011 111001100011 1111100011 1111100011111 1 111011101110 1011110111 1110011110 10010111110 1 11110111100 110100100011 111111101110 0110111111 1 11111110111 11101110010 11011100101 11100110110 1 111101111 11011101010 110111011011 111011110 1 1100111110 10100010101 101111001 1101011011 1 1011010010 0110001010 11010100011 11110110010 1 1101111111 11001010110 11110010111 1101101110 1 110010110011 1011110110 0111011101 11101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, vois, aux, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vois is repeated.

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