This is an analysis of the poem Pâles Esprits, Et Vous Ombres Poudreuses that begins with:
Pâles esprits, et vous ombres poudreuses,
Qui jouissant de la clarté du jour...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110100 11001101 11011001 11101100100 101010110 1011100110 110111101 10011100100 1011110001 1001111011010 1110110011 1100011010 110010011 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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