This is an analysis of the poem France! À L'Heure Où Tu Te Prosternes that begins with:
France ! à l'heure où tu te prosternes,
Le pied d'un tyran sur ton front,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXa XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 01110111 111001100 1101000 01010111 1001101 11101011 1001111 11011100 101111 10111110 10110111 10101110 11111001 111000110 10001011 10101011 0111110 001100110 0111110 10101110 1100110 10100011 1110110 1110111100 11010100 111110100 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, le, aux, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, le are repeated.
The author used the same word elles at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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