This is an analysis of the poem L'Âge D'Or De L'Avenir that begins with:

Le rideau s'est levé devant mes yeux débiles,
La lumière s'est faite et j'ai vu ses splendeurs ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaX XbXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 00111101110 110111111110 110110111010 111101110110 1101111110 11001110010 110001110110 1011111011110111 10010101110 101111111111 110001110100 1111001101 1111001011110 0100101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; et is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ces is repeated.

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  • summary of L'Âge D'Or De L'Avenir;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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