This is an analysis of the poem La Patrie that begins with:
Through storm--blown gloom the subtle light persists;
Shapes of tumultuous, ghostly cloud appear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fafa cfcf aXae gege egeg hgXg dede hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 10110010101 10011001101 11000010001 1101111111 01001010101 1011110111 10010111101 0101010101 0110100101001 101001110101 1010110011 100110111 11110010101 00111111110 01010011101 1101111111 1101110101 00101010101 1101001101 10100010111 1001011000 0001110011 1101010101 11110100001 1101010101 11010110101 1110010111 1111110101 10010111001 1101010111 01011001001 1111001101 1000110101 0001010100 1101001101 1111010111 0101110011 11100110101 1011100101 1111001101 1011110111 01001111101 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; his, and, she are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Patrie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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