This is an analysis of the poem Le Déluge that begins with:

La Terre était riante et dans sa fleur première ;
Le jour avait encor cette même lumière ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXXXXXXXbbXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX cXcXXXXXXXXX XXcccXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,16,12,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111110 011011111110 101100100110 11111001110 1101111110 11110101010 1010011111 11101111110 1111100111 11111110100 1110110111 111101111 101100101010 1011110100 111100101010 11101101 11010111 11101100110 110111110110 111111111 1101111011 10111001110001 110101111100 01111101010 1010101110 110101110110 1110011110 1111111000 101000110100 111111110 1111111100110 10110110111 10110011001 11110110111 011000101001 11001011111011 110011110101 01110011011 10011111101 111111111100 1101111110 111101101 110110111100 10010111110 11101011111 110110100110 11110011101 10111010010 10110011011 1101110111 1111110111 1101010011 11011101111 10110111110 11110101011 110110110111 0011011010 1011111110 11110100100 1011011100 10111100010 101101001100 111110110011 1010001100 11101111010 1001111111 111011110101 110111011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 823
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; des, les, leurs, ses, de, leur, la are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, es are repeated).

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

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