This is an analysis of the poem L'Irrémédiable (The Irremediable) that begins with:

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Une Idée, une Forme, un Etre ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXX XXXX XXXX XXcX dXXX XXeX XffX XXXg X XXeX fXXf h a ifjj klek mfhj lXac cgnX iXfc afnh kgfc X Xkoc hcjf X f a gggg pmmp Xiib agga dggd opop cllc fcfc X hchc ffff Xf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111111 1001011 1111011 11101111 11010100 10110010 1111001 11101110 11010010 1110010 1110111 1100111 1100100 11100100 11111010 10110111 1101011 1111110 1010100 1010011 11011010 11101010 1111111 1111010010 1101101 1111010 1011110 1011111 1010110 11010 1110101 110111101 1 111110 101100110 101111 1101110 11100010 10111000 100011100 110101 01010 1 101001010 11010111 00010101 11101011 110010100 10110001 00100111 10011010 110010100 01001011 11100110 11010010 10100010 011101000 10101101 01011010 011010101 01100011 10100101 010010101 11010110 11111000 1010101 111001101 01100101 11001010 10010111 0100110 10100110 011010001 11111010 111111011 1 1011011 01010110 101111 101110 01001010 10100010 11011010 010001010 010110100 0101000 1 010101101 10010111 00010111 01110101 11010101 1011010100 1001100100 110101001 01010101 010100110 0111110010 1100101 01010101 010101001 01010101 01000111 0111011 11011101 01010001 01010101 11010101 11110011 10010111 11010101 01010101 10010111 11011101 01010101 110100010 01010001 111111010 01110101 1 1110101 10010101 111101001 11010101 010101010 10010111 110101010 10110101 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 135
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    The author used the same words un, an, a 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 diable is repeated).

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  • summary of L'Irrémédiable (The Irremediable);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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