This is an analysis of the poem La Muse Malade (The Sick Muse) that begins with:
Ma pauvre muse, hélas! qu'as-tu donc ce matin?
Tes yeux creux sont peuplés de visions nocturnes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXX bXX C dcbe XXXX fbc bca X C dede dbdb ggh iih X X deXe Xede ffj jee b j kcekeXck llX cce X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011110 11111010100 1111111111 111101011000 010110110 111111100110 010011100110 1111111100100 1110100010011 1101011101 1111111100 11110110001 111101110 101011010110 011 1110111101 110111001010 1101010111 1011011101 1011000101 1111111011 101011101010 11001001110 1111101001 010001010101 111101110101 101010101 101101010011 1010111010 010110100 011 0111111101 1101011101 1101010101 1011011101 1100110111 1111110011 1001010111 0110110010 11110111110 10100101010 1111010101 0111000011 11011101001 1101010101 0101110 1110 1101111111 1101010101 1011010110 1011010111 01010111100 1111001111 0011010111 0111010110 1111111101 1101010101 0101011111 0111010101 11001010101 11110101001 0101101011 011 101010111111010 110111001010 01111101010 11010011010 0110010110 1111111011 0110010011100001 101110100010110 1111101010100 1110111011100 11110110101011100 101001001100 110101001 10101101010 0101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 86
- 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, le, and, of, that are repeated.
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- summary of La Muse Malade (The Sick Muse);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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