This is an analysis of the poem La Divine Épopée/06 that begins with:

Lorsque Caïn tremblant vit, le front dans la poudre,
Que ses dons sur l’autel n’attiraient que la foudre,...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,22,16,28,12,22,18,16,18,14,28,12,12,14,14,26,16,78,22,16,22,18,36,6,32,14,42,12,36,44,48,16,32,8,12,18,26,36,18,28,16,9,36,32,20,40,58,16,24,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 213
  • Amount of lines: 1211
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; que, de, j, la, l, d, le, e, des, du, il, ses, s, les, et, mon, je, un, son, qu, sa, moi, dans, vous, nous, au, elle, me, c are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, l, la, des, j, qu, o, et, de, tant, a, tes, ses, pour, r, le, car, are repeated.

    The author used the same words on, je 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 e, pas, re, tre, te, crit, tombe, s, es, voile, pieds, jour, rent, rieuse, tes, nues, ne, res, bres, are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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