This is an analysis of the poem Liege that begins with:
Betwixt the Foe and France was she --
France the immortal, France the free.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaXX bbbbcccb bXbdeeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 10010101 01111101 11 11110111 11110011 11010101 11 11011111 11011101 11100101 01 11110101 11011111 0101001001 11 11011101 101111000 01010111 11 10010101 11010001 011001001 01
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; france, she, her are repeated.
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