This is an analysis of the poem Hymne À La Beauté (Hymn To Beauty) that begins with:

Viens-tu du ciel profond ou sors-tu de l'abîme,
O Beauté? ton regard, infernal et divin,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab XXXX XbXX XXXX XXcX XXdX XXbX E fcab bdgf dXhi eife cXbA jhkb bjbb X E fbfb gXgl ldld Xjhj jaja bmbm fkfk c E fbfb ndnd edXd odod dXdA nmnm bXba Xo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011101 11101010110 1100010101 111110110011 110111010110 11101111100 110111111110 11011111100 110111011110 01011110111 11110111110 111001111101 110111111110 011010110110 10110111100 1110100110000 1111110 111110110 10010010111 011100100110 1110011010100 11110010 111110111011 110011111010 010101100111 100111111010 11011011 100110111011 1010 111010110001 1011011010 111000010011 1111101101 101011011101 1100110101 110101111100 110101101010 111001110011 100011011101 1111011010 111011110110 110110111110 011010010110 1100111010 101000011110 01011011110 1000111100010 010101010011 110101010011 101101010111 110110010010 010111111011 110011111101 011101110110 11011100101 100110111101 011100010110 010110100 1010 010110101001 1011010101 1100110111 1111100101 11011111010 111111011000 1101011100 11110111010 1101100101 1101010111 1101110011 1011110011 11010111110 01111101110 11010100010 11110100010 0101111101 1011110101 01110011001 1101010101 1100011101 0101010001 1111010111 0100111101 011110110100 0101010101 101010111100 11011100111 0101110 1010 0110110110001 110111010101 100011101100 111111110101 111101110111 1101001011001 11010111101 100101010101 001111010100 111101011101 111100111000 1101111100011 101111001111 011101100101 100101010011 101111010101 100101110011 101111101001 010100010001 110101010011 1101011101101 1101010100101 111111111001 011100111101 010101111101 111001010100 1111111011011 010111001111 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 121
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, tu, ton, de, you, your, and, his, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tu, you, your are repeated.

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  • summary of Hymne À La Beauté (Hymn To Beauty);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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