This is an analysis of the poem Fumant Dans Le Cristal that begins with:

Fumant dans le cristal, que Bacchus à longs flots
Partout aille à la ronde éveiller les bons mots....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXbbXXccXXXXXaXXXXXXXaXXddXXXXXbXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011011 1011110111 10110110011 1110111111 110011101011 101101110 101110110011 11101110100 111111010 10011011010 1110101111000 111111010100 011010100011 101011101010 101100111010 100101110010 111110011 01101011110 11101111110 110111110 1000110110 1111101110001 11011001100 10010101011 1101111010 1011001011 11010011110 01010100010 010100100011 10011010110 111111110 1101011001 11010101010 11001011111 111111110 001100111 111110110 111111000100 111001011010 101101011101 110100100110 11100110100 100101111 010110111011 010110101010 10111011110 1101111110 11110111110 111111011110 11010111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 203
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • 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; que, le, de, la, quel, allons are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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