This is an analysis of the poem L'Enfant Maudit (Moreau) that begins with:
Autrefois dans Bagdad, la ville des merveilles,
Grandissait Abdallah, fils du cheik El-Modi,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaXXX XbXbXccXXXX XXXXXXXbd XXXXXXXbX XXbdXXXXXX XXXX XbbaccXX XXXcXcXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX eeXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,11,9,9,10,4,8,11,13,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110111100 100110101110 111001110 111010101100 10111110010 11010011111 11100100110 110101111001 110110111010 1111100111 1010101111110 1111111100110 01001011110 1101011110010 11010110111 1101100111110 110111111010 001 11101111011 11010100 111110101101 11101010 11110111110 1111000 100010101110 011011101111 111011110 11010 1101111 10101111 1101101010100 1010111110 11110101110 110101111 1101110 110101100 11100011 11011011011 10101110111 010111110110 010111111000 111010101111 1111101111 10011010 1110100 1101001110 11011011011 11110111 111010011111 10111011010 10001111110 10101101110 110111010 110111111 1111111010 11111101010 1111101010 1110011111 111010111 1110111101 101100110010 11110110111 1111111110 111100101100 1101011110111 01011011010 111110111 11010111011 10111001 110110101010 111001111 01011101010110 11011100 010111111101110 101100111100 10010001010 0110010111 1011011110 1010110100110 10111010100 10101011 0110101110 101100111110 1011011111 1010110110 11110011 101110110111 11100111101111 10111110010 11101111110 10101011011 1111010110 111101110 1110111001110 111010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, un, la, le, vous are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).
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