This is an analysis of the poem Notre Langue that begins with:
Notre langue naquit aux lèvres des Gaulois.
Ses mots sont caressants, ses règles sont sévères,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXb baXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011110 1111001111 11110110100 101101101110 100110010110 01010010110 01100011100 010111011000 1011100110 0110011111110 110101100 110010100110 11101110 110011110111 10111010011 100110110001 11011010100 1111001101 11011101101 1100101011 1101111100 01101110 11010010100 110010111 10111111010 111111110 11110010101 0100011101 111101101 10001110111 1111111110 1101101100100 11010101 111101111100 111110101100 10111101110100 11100110100 110101111110 11100110100 110110101101 1001011110 1011011101 10100111110 11100110010 1110100101 11110011100 11101111001 1101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, des, les, du, la, re, de, et, son are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elle, le are repeated.
The author used the same words elle, la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Notre Langue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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