This is an analysis of the poem Jean Grain-D'Orge that begins with:

Il était une fois trois rois
Qui firent serment, par saint Georges,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX bXXb XXXX XaXc XaXX XXXc XXdX XXXX XeXX XbXd Xdde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 110101110 0110111 1111111 1010011 11000110 110111 1101001 11101010 10110011 111110 101101000 1101110 011111 01110 111101111 11110111 11011010 1111011 101011 1110101 1101110 10111010 100110100 10100110 0101101 1101011 1111111 11011100 10101011 11110010 11100010 11111 11101110 11011110 1001111 1100100 1001110 1111101 11110100 1111010 11101101 11010111 111011 1101110 111111100 1101010 101110110 1111011 11111001 110111 011011 111110 11001011 1111011 100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qu, il are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word et 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 tu is repeated).

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  • summary of Jean Grain-D'Orge;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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