This is an analysis of the poem The French Revolution (Excerpt) that begins with:

Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines
From his mountains; an odor of war, like a ripe... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacXaaabaXcbdefeghXfXbibXa cibiadhgibX Xi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,11,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001101001001111111 0010110011011010010 101001101011001011011 101010101101010101 01111001001111000101 011010101111010101 1010110010110011111110 000101011101101001100 11110010010110101010011 11110110010010101001101 11010100100110100101110 1101010100100111100111 10111001011101010110 1001101011101011101 1001001001010110010010 10001111011010110001 100101111100111001000 111011011011001010 10110101001001001101 101011001110101011101 110111001001011101011 111110100010100101111 11111101111100100110010 1101110111101011100111 1101011001110100110010 11110110100011100101 111011011101101011001 101110101100111101011 111010100101110010010 1100111010110100001 11010011111111101001 1100110101101011001001 1111101011001111011001 111100101100111001001 110110101010011001010 11010110010110101111 1110011011111001001001 10110110101110011110 010101010010001001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 861
  • Average number of words per stanza: 153
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 81 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, from, his, as, this, and, to, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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