This is an analysis of the poem Saint Vincent that begins with:
Ainsi, grand saint Vincent, c’est aujourd’hui ta fête.
Je l’eusse mieux aimée en un plus heureux mois....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX aXXXX bXbXX XXXXX XXXXX XcaXX XXXXX XXXaX cXXcX dXdXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110110011 11111111101 101110111 111101 11111111 111111 1111111110011 110110111 1010110 110111 1101011100 11110111110 1110001101 1111 11111001 10011101111 110010111 1111001111 11110101 110111 11101111010 1101111110 110101111010 110110100 0111110 111111111110 111101110111 111100101101 111110 1100110 11111111110 1011111110 01001111010 101011100 01110010 1100011100110 101011110 111001110 11111111 1001111 1101011101100 10111011100 11010111000 11111010 11110100 10100111110 1111111111010 111110101110 111101110 1100110 1111011010 111010101010 101111111100 111110 1001110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; te, n, l, re are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, je are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, e, re are repeated).
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- summary of Saint Vincent;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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