This is an analysis of the poem To The Poet On The Subject Of Flowers that begins with:

Thus continually towards the dark azure,
Where the sea of topazes shimmers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcX XcXX Xdef gbga XXbX bXhh X ebbb gcab bbhX bebi bbbg jkbd Xhbh bbXX hXhb X Xbil eXgX mchc dXbX dfeX njbb bXXi X chbh ebXX bghh hdab Xhbb ihbb ehXX hXbb bbgb bbbb mibb n XbiX hjXX kikn aeib lbob iibd XnXX J p iX n oXoX XXXX XXXX bXbX gbXX XXqX X XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,2,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000010110 101010010 0100110 01011000100 011110 1111110 01001110 0101010 01010101 01000110 010101101 01000110101 10101001 1011101 001101001 11111010 1111111 1101010 1001010 010100110 111110 1011111 101100 100100011 1 110011 10110 101101 110001010 01011011 1110 100110010 0010101010 011010111 110100100 010011101 10101100 1111100 1110001 1010101010 0101011 11101010 011001110 111010 111101010 010010100 01010101 11010101 1101010 11001110 11001010 101001101 11001101 010100101 1101111010 1110110 0110101000 101001101 1110100 1011011 1010011110 1 111010100 0101010 111111 011100010 0011101 010101000 11010101 01010100 1111111011 0010010 0001001010 10010010001 11100100 110100110 11010110 010101010010 010010110 11011011 01000111 00101010101 111111 1101010100 0110010 111101110 11110 10001001 1011100 11011100 1 110100001 1010001 100111101 1001010 11111011 11010 100100100 100100010100 1011010 11101 101000111 10011101 110100001010 11101000100 10001110 100100110 111111001000 0111010 11111101 1101010 111010100 11110101 110010 11011110 1101100101 101111 101110100 100110100 1011111011 100100101 100101001 100100101 11010 111100101 1101 110111 110010111 10111111001 110111100 11010 111100111 10100101 1010010 001110101 1 11010111 01010100 110101101 110011100 11001100 11010100 01101100 101010 1000100100 11011111 1010100 1010101 101110100 1011111 111011 1010101 10010001 101011 11000101011 10100101 011110101 000111 1010001 1010100 01000101 010000111 011010110 10101100 1110 01001 110111 1001 1 10101101 110111100 1000111 11110100 101010 111011000 0110111 11101000 01001010 01001111 01101110 10101100 11111111 111111110 1100111 101001110 10111111 10111001 111110010 11100100 101111110 11101000 1110001 10111010 1 1101110 11011010 10110010 1011010 11011010 100001000 1011010 11011000 0111011 111001000 11010111 11100100 101110 10100101 10101110 10111100 1011010 0101110 10010101 10101000 11010101 111001 1011001 101110 10100110 1100010 11001101 110011100 110111 110111100 11000010 0110100 011100010 1010100 11110110 11010110 1 11101111 100110 1111111111 10111100 11010111 110111000 11101111 11101100 11111100 111010 100010 1010110 1111100 111011111100 10011100 111110 1111100 1111111 1101010 11111010 111111110 1111101111 1001010 1100011 11001100 101010000 111110 1110010000 1 11110100 1100010 11101100 11100010 1111110 010010111 10010100 1011010 11110110 11101110 1100110 11101110 11011110 11010011 10100101 010001010 10111110 111011100 11110010 111010000 1101010 10100100 11101100 11111 11100111 11100110 11011001 111010110 11111101 101011000 11001101 110101100 1110100 11111010 1001011 11111110 011111110 11110100 11111001 111000100 1110101 11101010 11001100 1011010 1 100100110 101100100 11101011 1111110100 1111110 1101110 1011110 11001110 100101 1110111 11100100 111011 0111010 11110100 110101 11100100 110110 1110100 11011101 110001000 101110 10111001 1111010 010101 1011001 100001 1100110 1010101 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 93
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 337
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old, and, le, de, des, s, aux, tu, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, always, like, le, toujours, dis, comme are repeated.

    The author used the same words always, find, toujours, dis, trouve at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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