This is an analysis of the poem Alliance Franco-Russe that begins with:

Étant à la table d’hôte
D’un hôtel très fréquenté...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXa XXXX bXbX XXXX XcXc XXXX XXXd XXXc XXaX eXed XXXd XfXX XfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 1111 11111111 111111 10111 1101111 110111111 110110 110100 1101110 101111 1100111 110011 1111000 1110110 011110 11101110 1111110 011010 1101010 11111 1010100 101010 0101110 111111110 100010 11101 110010 11111110 111100 1101110 11100110 10110 10010 11110010 111001 1101000 110111 1101100 111111 10111101 1110110 111111 11111100 1111110 1011100 1101100 110111 11110111 1111110 1110010 100011 1101010 11011 111111 1001100 011101 111111 11011 010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

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

    The poet repeated the same word troubetzkoi at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Alliance Franco-Russe;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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