This is an analysis of the poem Pour Avoir Un Bon Roi, Un Conseil Juste Et Sage… [xxxi À Xl] that begins with:

Pour avoir un bon Roi, un Conseil juste et sage,
Un peuple obéissant, et une ferme paix,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX X XXXX X XXXX X XXaX X bXbX X XcXc X XXdX X aXaX X XXXX X XXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111110111 111001111 11101001110 11111111011 1 11111011000 100110011011 1011100111100 1100111101111 1 01110101011 011110110010 01101011110 11010111010 1 111111101 111100111001 1011010010010 110111011011 1 111011101010 111101101 1101101101010 11011110111 1 110100011111 11111001101 1101001101 0110010001 1 111011011110 1111101011110 1011011111111 1011111101 1 11010010110 1111100111010 1111010101101 111010110110 1 1101101010011 11110111000 101001111 11101111110 1 1101101000111 1100111011111 111111010 111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; un, le, de, des, pour, donne, d, la, raison, l are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, pour, celui, ils are repeated.

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  • summary of Pour Avoir Un Bon Roi, Un Conseil Juste Et Sage… [xxxi À Xl];
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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