This is an analysis of the poem Au Peuple that begins with:

Il te ressemble ; il est terrible et pacifique.
Il est sous l'infini le niveau magnifique ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011001100 1011100010100 10010010100 10110110110 111011011 11011111001 111110110100 111111111100 111001010 1101011010 0100111011011 11110111110 111110111100 10111010100 11111111110 10101110001 110111101101 11110111111 1101000101000 101110111001 1011111110 1101111111 111111110 11001011110 1111101111 1101011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 220
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; il, le, sur are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Au Peuple;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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