This is an analysis of the poem La Fête Du Terme that begins with:
Oh ! ce n’est pas la bacchanale
De la Fête nationale,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aaXXXX XXXXXX XXXbbX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXccX XXcXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 0111010 10110110 11010010 1111110 11001110 111110 10110010 110110 11110110 100101010 1011101 1101100 1011111010 11111110 11101110 110101 11101111 11011 10111110 01001000 11110011 1111101 1110110 10111110 111101 111011 11111111 111110110 1101111 010101111 111111 110110 11011110 111110 01010110 11011110 11010 110111 1010110 10011111 1111100 1111011 11001010 1100100 1110111 1011111 11101010 1011111 1011110 011011 1111111 101111000 11110 1110111 11111111 111110 10111010 111101 1011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; de, est, il, t are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elle, et, c are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines porte is repeated).
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