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

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How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXcadXXeXffgh fi X jfkcdjablmhll f mhaeXebX ge fcdfac X jfiflfc hcXXibmldecfcn X hX X mX fic lfehjhlcfiek ififend X cmfjfXeXei eX mie le XfX defkfi oX i a fcaocXmfXi fi lcifcaXbdfddfffi a a iglajfi ffffX jjdfedaeek ah a cfkXkdgefieecfjke dg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,2,1,13,1,8,2,6,1,7,14,1,2,1,2,3,12,7,1,10,2,3,2,3,6,2,1,1,10,2,16,1,1,7,5,10,2,1,17,2,1,1,1,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10100110001101101 010111100010101110 1011011010110111 0011001001110101 10010011001100111010 0110101011011100 10101010100100100100 10001010111001 11110101110100 11010101100110 1110101001001010 1101011110101101 0111010010101110 011110100101110 001 1 10100100110111010 11010011111111 11100100001010101 00100110100110011001 110010011111100110 0100101010011010 111011111011110011 1010011111001001 1111111111100100 101101010111111 1100111110010010110 1010101001100111 010100 01101000111101001 100110011101110111 011001110101010100100 111110101101001 111010100101001 111101001101010111 1011111101110111 11111111111111 11111 011011010101000101 110001101111001001 0101101100110111110 1101001101001001 11010101010010101010 101111010100101001 110101101110101 1100110010 1 011111001111010 00101110001001001 11001010010100101101 00101010011010111 1111111101010 101001101101100101 0110 01110001101010010 011101101011110 110110111011100 111101010101010100 0110101101010101001 100110111101010101 11011010101001001 0101110000110101010 10010010011000110 11100100010001001 10101001011110111 100101001010111 101011110110110 001010 110111101110100 111110111010101010 1100100 111101011010010110 1111100101010110 101101101001000100 1010010010010111001 011111011001 1010 10011010101010010 011011001010011 111011101110110011 1001101001100110110 11111111011101110 1010101110101110100 100101101010101110 10101101110101 11010000101011000011 11101001101010111 011101100010110 1001010010001 111001011010001010 1100101110101011 10101111110011 1001110100101111 1001000101010001 1010110010101001 10110101110110000110 1 011101111011010 010110101000001 111010111111111 0101110010110111 011100111111101 1111111101111 01011001110111111 001001001101011 010010101100010011 1010010111 1100111010011001101 01101010 1011000101001101 0010110111101001 0101 101111101011110010 010001 1100111100101001000 10101010100110010 10011010 10011001101001010 0111010110101 00100100101011001101 1010110101001001 1101011001010011 11101 1111111101001011 0111110 110101 1 010111001110101010 010010010001010100 10111011001101011 11101011100101011 0111010011000001 100100000101001000 010001000011101010 0101101011001010 10101011000100100101 0101001 0110111110011110010 00101 011001010101110 0100110101111110110 111011101111001111 11000101010111100010 01001011011010010 010100101000111 10010010011001001000 111111111111001 000100111011101010 11011101010011111 0101001010010010 0100100100010110110 11010100011001001 111110101111 1011001010001001 101010 111 10101100101 101010110111101 01110100011011 111010101101001110 1011010101110111 10010101010101010 0101001001111011 1101001001001011101 10111010000100001010 101010111010100100 1100001000100010011010 110111111101110010 111110 111011010100110010 0101010100101011111 011100010111010100 1011100111010011 1111101010001100100 010101010101001100 0101010001010110011 110101111111110 110110111010110100 1000101011100101 100010010101101 0101010 1 101101001101011 1101001001101011 11010011010010111 000100010100111011100 101010011110010 101010100110101010100 010001011111010010 1010100111101100 0010110010010110001 0101111101111101 1101101011110110111 1110111111111110 101101010011010101 011001111010101 1100111100101 11111101101101 11101001 10111110101011010 1011101010111001 11011110 0111111111000101 1 10011111100110101 011010100110011110 10110010101011101100 10100101101011010 01011101110111000100 10011110011110 010111110001101 001011101011001 01010100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 227
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; over, there, roses, her, and, your, fie, not, that, petals, flowers, of, i, ', m, it, to, empress, years, she, like, he, fallen, his are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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

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