This is an analysis of the poem Je T'Adore À L'Égal De La Voûte Nocturne (More Than Night's Vault, It's You That I Adore) that begins with:

Je t'adore à l'égal de la voûte nocturne,
Ô vase de tristesse, ô grande taciturne,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXa b bcdeXb bfba X g ggeehh bbbb a h ccdXff iiaa Xi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,1,6,4,1,1,6,4,1,1,6,4,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110101110 10101100 1110111111 111110100011 110000100011 1101111001 1110101111110 11110110100 11111010011 10110111111 101111100101 101111100101 1101011011 111101011101 101101100011 10100010101 110111001100 101001111001 101010100010 111001001101 101101111100 010110100 1111011101 1111011101 1001010101 0111011101 1000111101 010001111 11101100001 1101110001 1101010101 11010010111 1111110111 0101110 1101 1101111101 1111111101 1111010111 1110110100 01010101110 11011000110 1101110001 1011010101 11101110001 0101111100 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, s, as, you, and, i, of, more are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, i, more are repeated.

    The author used the same words je, i, more at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vault, adore are repeated).

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  • summary of Je T'Adore À L'Égal De La Voûte Nocturne (More Than Night's Vault, It's You That I Adore);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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