This is an analysis of the poem La Divine Épopée/02 that begins with:

Harpes d’Éden, chantez le bonheur immortel !
Une extase de feu monte de chaque autel,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXabcXdXeXXXXfXXgX XhXiXjbbhXcXXXXXXfghXiXXiiXXX XXXXXbXXkXbXXXXiilXXXcXXXXXhXXmXXXiXXXXjXddXXccXjXhXXXXXXiXhXXX XXXkXXXXXXhXXXXX X XmXdXXXX n XXooXpXXXX X nXX n XXhXXkXXXXXXaXbXiaX X f n XXXXgX X k X XXX X XdXXkiXXXkX n X X n n X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,29,63,16,1,8,1,10,1,3,1,19,1,1,1,6,1,1,1,3,1,11,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,8,1,7,1,34,1,1,1,6,1,1,1,2,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,12,1,62,1,26,7,1,32,1,1,1,22,10,24,46,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 80
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 591
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; ces, le, re, s, que, l, la, d, de, les, un, dans, est, t, mon, elle, plus, son, je, sur, ma, o, pour, mes, nous, du, tu, ou, roi, des, ses are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words que, elle, et, la, pourquoi, je, ce, tu, quand, pour, nul are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, es, re, jour, ve, le, e, rent, tes, pieds, livre, mes, bres, pas, me, s are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word mida at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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