This is an analysis of the poem Alchimie De La Douleur (The Alchemy Of Sorrow) that begins with:
L'un t'éclaire avec son ardeur,
L'autre en toi met son deuil, Nature!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXbX XXX cXX d aaXX eebX fgh bhX X d XffX bbbX gge geX g X aiia jccj kke kee Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 11111110 111110 111110 11001100 11101000 1111010 01111000 11111111 10010110 101110 1111101 11110100 111011000 0100010 11110010 0101101010 11101100 10010110 1111101 100011111 11101010 01001100 11111010 11010101 00101001 101000101 1100101 11101000 010110100 100010 111100010 11010101 11010001 100101110 00110101 01010001 11110101 01001100 11110101 11010111 01110111 10111111 01011001 01111000 0101110 100110 111001010 10110101 11001101 111100010 110111001 11111111 11010101 01110100 11111111 010101001 11010111 01010101 11010101 11110101 0101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of Alchimie De La Douleur (The Alchemy Of Sorrow);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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