This is an analysis of the poem Aux Proscrits that begins with:

EN PLANTANT LE CHÊNE DES ÉTATS-UNIS D'EUROPE
DANS LE JARDIN DE HAUTEVILLE HOUSE...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a X b XXcc XXXX dXdX XXXX XXXX XeXX XfgX gXXX XXXe cXXX XXXX X XhXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXiX XXXX XXXX X iXXX XXXX XfXX XXiX hahX X XXXX XXXX XXXX iXia XXXX XXXX gXgX XXXX XfXX b XXXX XgXg XXXX XXcX XXbX XXXX aXaX XjXj XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001111010 101001001 01101 1 101110101110 010111111110 11011011011 1111111 11010101110 11101111110 111101101 1110011 11101001010 1001111110 1011111100 01001010 10111011001 0110110001 1110011101 111010 110111110101 0101110101110 10111111101 110100110 11110110010 110101011001 01110111101 011101110 101111101110 11011110001111 1101101011110 1111100 1110111000 111011010110 111011100 11001100 1001100110 100110011 101111010 1011110 1110111111010 1111001111 11011011100 0110100 111100110111 111101111110 1010111110100 11111110 1 11011001111 10110110101 100111111111 11001010 110010111111 1111110111 01111111111 010111 1100111010 111001011110 111010111011 111101 101111101110 110101011110 1111111101000 10111010 1101111001 1011101111 111101101 1110100 110101011011 010000110111 11010111001 0110100 1101011110 1101011010 1100101110 11100110 10100101000 10110101110 110101101100 11100 1 11100010101 1111101110110 110111001 011101 1010000110100 11000011011 1100001011010 0110110 11101001011100 1110100011101 0101100101100 11101110 101011001001 1101101110100 1010111100111 110111111 101011111101 111010110001 1101010111101 1101110 1 110110101111110 1011011110110 1111111011 1101110 101110110100 110011111111 110111010110 11101100 101111111111 1011011111111 1011110110010 1011110 10111001111 110101111110 0101110011001 1011010 110101111010 10110111010 10110111011 110010 1100110111111 11011100111110 11011101111 101111 101011101010 10101110100 101001111000 0111110 11110101111101 1011110111110 111011011 01010110 101101101 011000010011 10110111101100 101111 1 101011011010 10111110 11010101001100 11110110 11010011110 10110101100 1110111001 111001 101111101110 101100111000 111011110100 11010100 10111110100 0110011110110 1110101101 10010011 110100010111 110111100 1111111111 11010 0111111011 1100101101010 101111010 10110100 1010011101101 100110110111 101110111011 1101100 10101010110 101110110101 111110101010 10110110 1101010101101 110101100 111110101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 177
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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; le, de, et, aux, nous, sa, vous, des, qu'il, l'arbre, ne, un, la, les, semons, soit are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words chacun, et, vous, qu'il, avec, semons are repeated.

    The author used the same words il, afin, qu'il, avec at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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