This is an analysis of the poem Le Bal that begins with:
La harpe tremble encore et la flûte soupire,
Car la Walse bondit dans son sphérique empire ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX XXaX XXXXXXXaXXXXXbccXXXX cXXX dXbbXXXXXXccXXXXXdXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,20,4,20,4,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111110 11110111100 1101001011 101001110 10011110110 11011100110 100111111 111110111011 11010101011 111110101011 111110111110 111111110 10101101101 1001100110 10111110 101111111 10110001111 11110101 11111010110 101101010 101101111000 011010110100 101101011 10111000110 11001010010 11101011111 01111001100 11110100011 110011111100 011010011110 1010101011 1011110101 1000111010 1000111110 1001111110011 111100111110 01001110111 100111110 11010011100 1111100110 10111110011 1001111011 0101001010 1111111001 110001110001 110010110010 1110110111 0110111010 11010111011 101110110100 11101110010 11110011001 111100110100 1110010111010 11111110 110101111010 10111011110 11101111011 10011011011 1110011110111 01011100110 11111101 1111101110 10010111010 1011111 011100101110 1100011110 111101110 100110011010 10010110110110 11111010011 1011011010 1010101100100 1111101110 110111110 1101110010 111100101101 110111101011 10110111 101001110 111101111000 110101110010 10110111010 111111100110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 553
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 84
- 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; la, vos, le, et, les, de, larmes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, les are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, tre, res, tes, t, s, es are repeated).
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