This is an analysis of the poem C'Est À Coups De Canon Qu'On Rend Le Peuple Heureux that begins with:

C'est à coups de canon qu'on rend le peuple heureux.
Nous sommes revenus de tous ces grands mots creux :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXXXbbXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101010110 110100011111 110010011 101101010 100111011010 1110011011 0111011110 110011100111 110101011000 111010011010 1001111111 111111110 1100001110 1010011110010 1111111101 1010111010 101010101100 11111111010 01011101110010 111101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 976
  • Average number of words per stanza: 166
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; de, est, et are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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