This is an analysis of the poem La Capitale that begins with:
L'énorme capitale est un fruit douloureux.
Son écorce effondrée et ses pulpes trop mûres...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX 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: 11000111100 1110111011 1010001101000 110100101100 111110110 110011011100 1110101101100 11110111010 1011110111001 10111101 11101110100 1101011011 11101111110 1110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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- summary of La Capitale;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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