This is an analysis of the poem Portent that begins with:
Courage mes gars:
La guerre est proche....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX aXaXbcbX dcdcbcbX ececfcfc eaeaXXXX dgdggcgX Xacadcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 11011 11110101 11011101 11111101 11011000 11011111 01010011 11101101 1001111010 10111101 011100101 11110111 11110101 01110111 01011101 01001111 1001111010 11110101 010010101 01110111 11110111 01010101 11010111 11110101 11111111 11111101 11010101 11111101 10110101 11110111 01011101 01110001 1001111010 11111111 10110111 11110111 01011101 11111001 11111111 10111101 1001111010 1001111010 11010101 01010111 11110101 11000111 11000101 11010101 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, courage are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines near is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word near at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Portent;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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