This is an analysis of the poem L'Idéal (The Ideal) that begins with:
Ce ne seront jamais ces beautés de vignettes,
Produits avariés, nés d'un siècle vaurien,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXcX XdX eXc F eXb Xccf adc Xcc X F aeXe Xfcf bbg hhg f F abXbcfcf cchcch X X abXb hfhf iic ici Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,3,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,6,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101011001 1010011110 11100111000 11010011101 11110011100 1101000110 11111110101110 111101110 11011110111 11100111011 1101110110 1111110101 1110001111 1101110110 001 001000101011110100001101 111011110100 111010110111 110100100100 0101010010 11101011110 0101011101 011011011101 011001111001 010100100101 111110010101 110010100011 1110101010 010110100 001 0101010001 01001000101 01001111100 0111010101 11100100100 01001100101 11110111010 01001110101 00110101010 10011001010 1101010011 1001000101 1101010101 1111110001 0101110 001 1101110001 1000110101 0111011100 1101010111 1101001001 1101011101 1101110111 0101001101 1111110101 1001011101 1100110111 1111100101 1100100011 1101010101 0101110 10 1011010101 1111010101 110011111000 1110010101 1101100101 0101001101 1101010101 0101001101 1101110101 1101110001 110011110101 1111010001 1001000101 1101010101 0101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 81
- 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; s, ces, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ideal at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of L'Idéal (The Ideal);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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