This is an analysis of the poem A La France that begins with:

Personne pour toi. Tous sont d'accord. Celui-ci,
Nommé Gladstone, dit à tes bourreaux : merci ! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXbXbXXXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110101 111111010 111111111 1101010111 111101111110 1110110111 11111111100 111111111111 11011111011 110110101110 111111010 1101011111 101111111 11011101111 0111110110 1100111100 01110101110 10110101100 1111111 1000111100 01110011100 11110101111010 101111111011 111111011 1011010110 11111011110 110111111010 1011001011 11111101001100 110111111100 10101111101 1110011111 111010110110 110111111110 1110111011010 1111101111101 11110111010 1100111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1861
  • Average number of words per stanza: 342
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nomm, un, tu, de, les, la, qui, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tu is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

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  • summary of A La France;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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