This is an analysis of the poem Le Pays Sans Chemise that begins with:

Il est une contrée omise
Sur la carte de l’univers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XaXX cdXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXcX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXe Xdbd XXXX Xebe cdcX abaX XXXe aXXX XXXX XeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110 1110100 11101101 111101110 11111 11101110 101001 01101011 11100010 1101110 1111111100 11011110 1111110 01111 1010110 11100010 10111010 1110110 10101000 11110001 11101100 10101110 111111010 11001011 111110100 11011101 101001100 1110100 10101101 11001110 10001100 111010 111110 11011 1111010 111011 10111100 01011011 1010011 11110110 11111011 011011 11111111 111010 11011111 100110 110111 11111 101010100 0111011111 111111010 11111011 11001101 110011 11101010 111010 10111111011 111100 11011 11100110 1101110 110110 101100 110101110 11001100 101010101 111111 1011111 1100010 1101111 111101 1101101 1101100 111010 11101101 10011110 11101010 101111011 11101 1011110 111010110 10010011 11111110 1001110 111001 110100 111111 111110 1011011100 101101010 1111010 110111 1110110 110100 1111111 10111101 1101011 1111110 11010101 10111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • 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; s, le, qui, il, lui, des, ses are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lui 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.

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  • summary of Le Pays Sans Chemise;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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