This is an analysis of the poem L'Aube Spirituelle (Spiritual Dawn) that begins with:

Quand chez les débauchés l'aube blanche et vermeille
Entre en société de l'Idéal rongeur,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXX XXb C cdXa aade aXa abc X C bfbf bgbg aaa acc b X hiih eXie faa fcc Xd
  • 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: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111111110 1011001010 11001110 1111011111 11100100010 1110111111 11101010001 101111011 11110110010 11011111110 11100101000 00101011110 101010110110 1100010001 10001 110011101101 010100111111 1010000100101 001001110010 01010010100010 101101110111 10110010001 1110101011 100101001010 110010110110 100100011101 011110010010 1100100101 1100100101 010110100 10001 1001000001 1101110111 0101110111 1101010101 1111111101 01000101001 0111010100 1101010011 10010101110 1101010101 1101010101 01110101010 11010010111 1101000101 0101110 1100 1001010101 1001110101 1101010101 1100011001 11010100101 01010101001 100101010010 1100111111 1001010101 10110011101 010010111001 0111010101 101010011111 01010000101 0101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; et, plus, and, of are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dawn is repeated).

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  • summary of L'Aube Spirituelle (Spiritual Dawn);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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