This is an analysis of the poem La Question Du Bas Noir that begins with:
Ah dieux ! qu’ouis-je ? Ciel ! qu’apprends-je ?
Voilà pour le moins de l’étrange :...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXaa bbXX XXXX aXcX XXXc XXdd edXe XXXe Xadd XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXc XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111011 110101 11001011 11 0111110 1111111 111100 11 110100 1101110 01101101 1110 111111011 1111101 111011 11110 100001100 101011 0111111011 1111 0111111 1011011 0111010 1110 01111110 0101110 01100100 0110 10110101 1111110 1100011 110 11101110 11111110 1010010 1111 01111110 1100110 110001 101 11111011 111101 11101011 1001 1110110 11101000 11001100 1010 101110111 1110101 10110100 1111 101101110 1011101 1111010 1110 10100110 1101110 011010 11 1110111 1001111 111110 1110 1111110 1011110 1110010 1111 01110110 1111101 1110010 0100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, res, es are repeated).
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- summary of La Question Du Bas Noir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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