This is an analysis of the poem Dolorida that begins with:

Est-ce la Volupté qui, pour ses doux mystères,
Furtive, a rallumé ces lampes solitaires ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,10,14,6,4,12,9,12,1,9,1,18,1,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110111110 100101101000 11101011110 11011101010 110101101 11011011 111100111010 1111011110 11111010110 1001000101110 1101001010111 11010101101 11010111001 111110111 110101110100 11101011110 10111011101 11110110101 101111111111 1101001110111 11110110 1100101111 11101111001 10000110100 111010110010 1110101110110 111010011 111111110001 1011110111100 01011001110 10011011110 1111111010 11110110111 111101001 100011111100 0011101010 10101011111 1011001110 11111101110 111110110101 10111111100 1101101110110 111110111001 11111101011 011111 11101011110 101110110100 1011111110 111011111 110101111 11011011011 11110111110 1111011010 1110111111 101000111101 111011101110 111101110010 11000111100 11010011001 110101111100 11110110010 1111011110 1010110110 111111110110 011100111111 01011110011 111110111010 100110110111 11010111110 11110110100 1010011111011 111110111101 1111011110 1011011010 1111011111 101011111110 111010111110 1111110111101 1111011101 1111110011111101 10001111110 1001011100110 1111111101100 111111110010 111101111101 11101011011 1111110111011 10111101001010 101111011100101 1101010110110 111111010101 101010111011 111000011101 1110111111 110111111 011111111 111111111010 11100111111 111111111110 11101111110 11011111100 111111111110 11111111100 1011010110010 1110110110110 11011110001110 1111111111 1111010110 1111101110011 11011101011 1111101111 1110111001011 1111101101 1010111001 1001111101 1111010101111 11111111110 1101111111110 11110110101 111110011111 1111111111100 111110101100 0111010111110 1111110111 11111111101110 11110011011010 111010110101 100110111010 1111111110 100111011110 1111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 131
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; la, le, que, les, mort, par, elle are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, je are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, ges, e, pas, vre are repeated).

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  • summary of Dolorida;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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