This is an analysis of the poem La Captive (The Turkish Captive) that begins with:
Si je n'étais captive,
J'aimerais ce pays,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXXX XcXXXXbc XXXXXXXX XdXdeeXX XXXXXXbX XfXXXbXb XXXXXXXX XXXdXXXX XXXXXgXX a aXhiXgjg kfifbiki jblXlkgk XilibbhX fXbgbjhj fbbbXchc bbfbihjh hXbigiXihihihcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 10011 11110 11101 111011 101011 10011 010110 11111110 110101 10110 11110 1101100 111110 101101 111001 10111 110110 001110 111010 111011 10111 11010 11111 101110 101110 111011 1110 11111 01111 111111 111100 111100 11010 1101100 01110 11110 110010 110100 1111 110101 111010 11110 11011 01011 11100 110100 1010111 10110 11011 111010 110010 11111 101011 11101 111011 1111010 1011100 1110010 011001 1100 101010 110011 111100 110111 111100 111110 110110 111110 101111 11111 11010 01010 1011010 111011 1101010 010101 11111000 010001 0111111 0101001 1111010 1010001 11111101 110101 1011010 01111 0110010 111101 1111010 110101 0101010 110100 1101010 1011101 11010100 110101 00100110 011001 1101010 1000111 1101010 1101001 1001110 010000 1111110 1101100 1111011 110101 11101100 111111 100010 011100 1001010 101100 1011110 100101 11000010 010101 0101010 011101 1101010 010101 1111010 0100101 1101011 0101001 11011101 010101 11110101 010100 1111010 0101001 0101110 010001 11010100 110101 1111010 110001 0111110 110101 1101010 010111 0101100 01001001
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 146
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ces, es, les, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, ces are repeated.
The author used the same words j'aime, i 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 coupe, es, captive are repeated).
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