This is an analysis of the poem La Beauté (Beauty) that begins with:
Je suis belle, ô mortels! comme un rêve de pierre,
Et mon sein, où chacun s'est meurtri tour à tour,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX XXXX bcX XbX d efgh cbbf bbd bic X d eheh ejej kkb llb i X aeea jeej Xci cXi c d efgf lcbX XbilhbXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110111001 11111011011 011110011110 10011101110 111110111100 101101110110 111010011110 1101111111011111 11010110101 111100111100 10001111010 111100110010 011011101011 11110111100 10 111110101101 111111011101 01001001001 1010110110 101001001001 110101001001 1110100101 110111110111 1001110110 111001001011 0011100110 111001101010 11011111100 111111001010 010110100 10 0111010101 11100111110 010101101 01110100110 01101011110 0101000101 1111010101 1101110111 1001110111 0101010101 1100110111 1111010001 1011011101 1111010011 0101110 11 1101011101 10010011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 0101011101 1101011101 1111011101 1101101000 0011110100 1111110001 1001111101 110100101000 11111100101 0101101011 10 01110101 11110101 0101111 111011001 01110111 111111001 10011101 11011101 010010101 01110101 100010100 101110101 1101000110 01010111 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; je, ne, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a are repeated.
The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Beauté (Beauty);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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