This is an analysis of the poem Cent Mille Hommes, Criblés D'Obus Et De Mitraille that begins with:
Cent mille hommes, criblés d'obus et de mitraille,
Cent mille hommes, couchés sur un champ de bataille,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXAXXBXXXXXXXCX XXXAXXBXXXXXXXCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101010 1111111010 1111111100 1111011110 111010111100 11110010100 11111101110 1110111110 111001101111 1100111110 111010011100 101001110010 1011001111 1101101101 101010111110 111001101011 1111101010 1111111010 1111111100 1111011110 111010111100 11110010100 11111101110 1110111110 111001101111 1100111110 111010011100 101001110010 1011001111 1101101101 101010111110 111001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 763
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; s, moins are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words cent, sont are repeated.
The author used the same word cent at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word vois at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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