This is an analysis of the poem Horreur Sympathique (Sympathetic Horror) that begins with:
De ce ciel bizarre et livide,
Tourmenté comme ton destin, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX XXXa XXX XXX c bXDa baXe XbX FaX X c bdDb dede ggf Fdd Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101110 101110 1101111 0101100 1000010 01010100 1111101110 1001010 11111 111110110 1101011 11100011 1111010 010111111 01010 01101110 01011100 11001101 01101101 100010 10110010 11110110 10010101 11101001 11010011 111010 10110011 11110010 00110111 010110100 101010 01011011 11011101 11001101 10110101 0100111 11110111 11110111 10010101 11110101 01111111 10111101 10110011 11110101 01110101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Horreur Sympathique (Sympathetic Horror);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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