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

FRAGMENT I.--PROLOGUE.
Dans nos vastes cités, par le sort partagés,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaabXXXaa cdeaXfXaXgXXaahijXXXXXXjXXXXbXXXXXdXXXXbXXbaXXXgXh X XXXXbXXXXXXXeXXXbXjXXXXbXdXXaXXXXXXdgXXiXXXXXX XXXXXXXgXfXkXXXdXabbXXcXXX X cXdXlljXaaXX XXaXXXXXXXcXXXaXXXXXlXbbeXbbXfXaXdXXkXiXXlXX XXXXXXXXeXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,50,1,46,26,1,12,44,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 1110110110 11100101111 111011110100 10110110100 110110110011 110111110110 0101011100100 111111101000 101110110011 1111111011 1111110100110 011100110011 101011110101 111001111 11101110010 11110011011 111100111110 111000111 111111111 110110101 111111110 11111011110 0100101101 1110101101 1011101101011 11111011010 101110111011 10111011110 11111111010 11101011010 111111100101 1101011111 1011111010 10101110010 110101011 111111111110 11101111010 11101111100 1101111101100 11101011110100 11110111001 110101111101 11110101001100 1111111110100 11110101111 111011110 11010011110 11000110110 1101101010 11101111110 1011111000 110110111100 1101110011 1111011101 111010101 101111101 10110001100 1111001110011 10011011111 1111111101101 101 1001101011100 11100100100 11111011110 010010101101 1010110110100 101111100100 11110110100 11111110 1111110111 111011111000 110110111100 111011011111 11011011011 10111111100 1101101110 110100110 100110011001 111101100100 1111110011 1111011110011 1101111011100 10110110010 101110110010 1111101101001 10110111011010 1001001101 10111011111 111101011101110 11111011110 1111011110 111100101110 0110110111101 11110011110 11010110110 111111111110 11101111100111 0111011001 1111011100 1011011111 10110101100 10111111100 1001011110 1011110111010 10111100111 111100111110 1101011011 11111010 1110010110011 11011111110 111101111100 111010111100 0110110110 110111101 11101111111 1001101011 1100111100110 111011011010 110100111110 111101010 1101010111100 010110101010 11011011111101 1110101011001 11101101110 11010101000100 0110110101100 110110111111 1011111111 1111011110 1011110100 1111111 101101110110 101 011010100100 1101101011 101110111001 101111110010 1111111110 111111011110 1111111001 1110101110 1111001101 100100110011 1111111011 1111011011 1101111001 100100101110 11101111011 1100110111 100110111010 1101011110010 11111110011 101100101111 1101100100100 1111001100100 110111110 1110111111110 011101100100 11100111100 010101100 11101010010 11011111000 111011100100 0111101010 1011001100 1101001010010 1111011110 110111111111 11111110011 1110110101011 1111101111110 1110111101 111100111101 11111111010 111010101010 0111011101 110001111111 1111010110 11111101110001 01101111011 1111100110 110011010 0101010110110 110011110101 111110111 11101101101 1110110111 10111111110 11111010101 11011111001 110110011001 11010110111 111111110 1111110010 11110011110 11111110110 1111111110010 01010110101 01001111001 1111011010 110111111111 1100101110110 10111010110 111010111010 111010010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 970
  • Average number of words per stanza: 180
  • Amount of lines: 208
  • 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; s, ces, leurs, et, les, je, eux, leur, de, des, ont, la, il, son, en, vain, sur, que, plus, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ces, les, en, un, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, e, me, es, res, tre, tres are repeated).

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

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