This is an analysis of the poem Châtiment De L'Orgueil (The Punishment Of Pride) that begins with:

En ces temps merveilleux où la Théologie
Fleurit avec le plus de sève et d'énergie,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXbXXcXXX dXbXddeeaXba f ghhbigjckfkcgX fjccfcc cbhij X F llffffjjmmjjfX nnffffllkkkkhh X F llkkbbooffeemX ccjjllccookk Xj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,1,14,7,5,1,1,14,14,1,1,14,12,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001110 1010010111 110101110111 110111100 110101110010 11010111010 11010010111100 11110111110 1111111010 101110100 1101111111 11101010011 0101110011 1111101101010 1000110110 10101111111 101010110100 1010010111100 1110101011010 010111100110 111101110101 11111011011 11111011110 111100111110 1100111111 11011011111 10011 011001010100 100010100110 00111101110 101011001001 101000110110 1010101001010 100111100101 1101100111 101011111011 111001100101 101010111101 111100111001 011011110110 111011100110 111010010010 010101010011 011010111101 010101101100 0111111110 10110101000 1010010101 1111101001 111101101001 010100110110 101010100101 110101010010 010110100 010001 1101000011 1001001101 01010010011 11010100101 1001010101 1100010101 1001001101 1101011101 10111110010 10010101010 1111111001 1111011101 1011111111 11010100100 01000110101 1101110101 1101010111 0101010101 1100110101 1101010001 1011011101 0111010111 0111011101 1011010111 1111010101 11001010101 11010101010 11010101110 0101110 010001 1011001100001 110011100101 01010000010001 1111010100111 100100110101 1100111011101 110100010001 1100010111101 110111011101 100101000101 1011010110101 0001010110111 0101010111111 0101010110111 111111000101 010001010011 110101011001 1011110110010 001100110011 101101010101 1010110100101 101111111111 1100101011101 110110000001 0111010001101 110101010111 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 115
  • 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; les, your, that, to, and, of, i are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Châtiment De L'Orgueil (The Punishment Of Pride);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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