This is an analysis of the poem L’art Des Transports De L’ame that begins with:

L'art, des transports de l'âme est un faible interprète:
L'art ne fait que des vers; le coeur seul est poète....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101011110 1111111011011 11100110 11110101111 110110111111011 11101111101 1111101110 111110011111 1011101111010 1111111010 1011110110 11111011101 10011111110 1011111110011 1111111010 1111001011100 11110110011 11011101 01010011111 1101111111 11101111111110 1010110101111 1011101011100 111110111100 100110110110 11011111110 101111011100 1101110101 110111010111 100011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 293
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; te, et, il are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of L’art Des Transports De L’ame;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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