This is an analysis of the poem The Grand Seigneur that begins with:
To the hut of the peasant, or lordly hall,
To the heart of the king, or humblest thrall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabX XccbX Xddbb ceXbf cccbb cXefX gggcX XddbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100101101 00100111001 10111101 1010011011 0100110 0100100100 1011100101 1010110101 111011011 110110 1001011000 1110100101 0100110101 1110110011 1101100 1010101101 1011100100 1111110101 110010111 100101 1011110101 0010101101 1010100101 11011111 110111 1111001100 1110100110 11111101100 1110011011 100110 1010100101 1101101101 1101101111 1110110111 1101101 11101011000 0110100101 1110111101 111011011 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, or, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, that are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words seigneur, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Grand Seigneur;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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