This is an analysis of the poem Le But De L'Art that begins with:
Non, l'art n'est pas un jeu frivole, un vain prestige,
Mirage qui s'éteint sans laisser de vestige,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcdXXeXXfXXXXbXXgXX XgXcXX XX XXXXXfXXXcfXXXcXXfXXXXXbXd XXXbXX XXddXXXXbXXXhh XXccbbXhXXbb XXXXXbXcXXcXXXiX XXXX XXXXXXXXXXeXXeXfXXXgXXXbXiXcXbXi XX iXaXXXXXXbXXXXXhXX XXbbhXXXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,6,2,26,6,14,12,16,4,32,2,18,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101101 0111110010 11010010110 1111011100101 1011101111101 11011011011100 110010111100 111110111000 111011011110 1111110111 11111011100 10001011011 11001111111 101010011010 1110101011 01111110110 11101010110010 1111111110 101110011110 1011011001 101110001110 110110101110 11110110 01111111101 11101101110 11110110101 11100110100 111111110 11011101111 110111101 1110010011110 0111110110 111111110110 1111101010 1011010010 1111110001 11111111100 1010011010 1111010001 11011101011 1110010110 1111101100110 10110110100 11100111110 11111011001 111111110 11110101100 1010111111 110001101010 111101101000 11110100001 10011011101 101110111110 110111101 111110100110 110101110110 1011111011 1111011111 111011101010 11101110110 11111111111 11010111100 110111011 10101101110 11101110 0111010110 1001011110 111010100110 1101011101000 11010101101000 111110111010 100111101101 1010111111 1001001001111 1010011111 1101011111 1100110111 1100010101010 10110110011 11110011010 10111011110 11101111101 1101111111110 1101100100101 111110111010 110111101110 11101111010 11100110110 11110011010 1110101000 11101110110 10110111110 101101111111 1110101101110 0110100100 11011111101 10011101 110110101101 01111111 101111111110 10101101111 1011011110 111110100111 111011110 110110101110 101111010 111101001 101100111 1110110101100 1001110100 11111110 101110101110 11111100110 1111111011010 1101111110 1110101101110 110111110111 10111111110 111010011101 100101101 101100101000 1011110100 11011101110 110110110011 010100100101 101100111101 11111100010 111110101111 1101101110 1101110110 01111111111 100010110111 100101100101 101101110 11110101100 11010111101 01110101100 0101101001110 10110101010 11101111011101 11101111 01111111111 1101101101 0101011110 011111100110 1100110111010 11111111010 1111111100 111010110 10110101001 1100111111 1110111001 101111101111 100011100011 1001111101111 11010111 101111111111 10110110111 111110110110 0110101010 001010101010 11101101010 11011101001 1111110011 1010111101 11001011100 11110110010 01101100010 1101101110110 1101010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 170
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; de, un, qu'on, les, qu'il, plus, et, des, le, dans, la, qui, l', malgr are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qu'il, quand, et, les, o, dans, de are repeated.
The author used the same word puis 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 es, faites, tre, res, e, s, pas are repeated).
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