This is an analysis of the poem Le Brasier that begins with:

J'AI jeté dans le noble feu
Que je transporte et que j'adore...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX aXaXX aXbXXa XXXXXXX XXbX XcX XXX XXcXX XXXX aXXX XXXc XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,6,7,4,3,3,5,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 111101110 01111111 111101 11111111 01010110 1111100 111110001 11001110 1110010 1111110 10110110 100110010 1010110100 11101111 11111110 11101100 1111100 1110111 111111010 011111 111110 101010 11011110 110110100 1111010100100 111110110010010000 110110010101 100101100 11101101000010110 111010011111001 1100101100 110001101000110 11101111111110 1110011110 1011100 0110101100 111111111110 100100111100 1101100 11011010101 11110110 01011011110 10111111110 100101110011 11001110110 11100101100 1101100110 1101010111 110001101100 1001101000110 110110100 11111100110010 10100110110 1011100101111 1101011100110 11101111001 1100100 1110111101110 11110110110 11011111110 110100101100 1011011100 1 11110101 100111111100 10101100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; le, les, de, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Le Brasier;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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