This is an analysis of the poem Ce Siècle Avait Deux Ans that begins with:
Ce siècle avait deux ans ! Rome remplaçait Sparte,
Déjà Napoléon perçait sous Bonaparte, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXbbXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXbXXXXXaXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXcXddXX XXXcXX XdXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,10,10,14,18,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111101 1100101101 10011011110 01010010011 10110011100 1111110111 10111011011 111110101111 1110110101 1000101011 1111111110 1111111111110 11111110011 1110111111001 11 111101111 111101101110 10011111010 11111101110 111111011 101101111001 101110111 110010110110 10101110010 101011111110 1110101111110 10101111010 101110011010 11001110100 110110010011 011101110110 11100111100 101001011111 01011111010 1111110010 1001111101 1111011001 111100111010 111011110110 101110111110 10100110111 1011011111 1111110111 11111011111 11111011110 111111101010 110110110110 110001110010 01011111 110011100110 110101110100 111010101110 101110100110 111110110 11111111 1011110111 0101110111011 11110110110 10110110111 10110110 11111011111 111011111111 1111110001 101110110110 11011011010 11111101110 1111100111110 10110011110 111111111101111 10110101101 1110101011 110111101010 110101111010 1101111110 010011011110 10110111111 01111011110 11011101111 111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sans, re, de, que, les, la, je, pour are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tout, si are repeated.
The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, e, pas, es are repeated).
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