This is an analysis of the poem La Muse Vénale (The Venal Muse) that begins with:

Ô muse de mon coeur, amante des palais,
Auras-tu, quand Janvier lâchera ses Borées,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXc XXaX XXX XbX B bdbe bbfa ead gah X B hbhb icic eed Xcd j B fkkfkffk hhhbbh X B afaf afaf cca ffX a X faaf faaf aaX Xce c B bfcfbbeb adl ggl h B bbfb bbcb ehi bij Xh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,6,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101 10111001011 101110110010 110110111100 1000111110 110010101110 10111101101 1001111100 11111011011 11110110100 101111011111 1100110110 111101101111 111011010 0101 1011111100 110101011011 100101001010 11001111101 011011011010 000101111010 101110111110 011001001101 0111011101 0101011101 10111011101 1101000111111 110101110111 0101011010 010110100 0101 10110100010 1011010101 00110011010 01010111001 1011011101 1011110101 0101010011 1101110111 1111010111 1101010111 111111001 11010111000 1101011111 0100010001 0101110 0101 100100101111 111101010101 1101011010111 010101110011 111111010001 010101110011 101111011101 111101111100 0111011011110 1111011101110 101011101010 0100100101100 010101111101 0101010100110 0101110 010101 101111010001 110101110111 1111010110101 1011001001101 110111010111 011101000101 111101011101 1100110110101 110111111111 10010101110011 1111110111101 100100010111 1111010101101 0101000100100 01011011001 111 1111110001 1111010101 1111010101 1101111101 1111110001 0101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1101110101 0111010101 1111001100 11011111000 1111110101 01010010001 0101101011 0101 11011100100 011110101101 101100110 1100111001 10011110 0010111010 11101110111011 10110010101110 11011101 10101001001 1101010101 101011101011 1110101111101 010011101010101 0101100100 010101 110111000100 1111010100101 1101010111001 00110001010 110111010 1010111010 110111101110 011010101 01110111 10101010010 01011110010 11001000111 111010101011 010001010010 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 139
  • 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; de, your, to, of, you, no are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase muse connects the lines.

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  • summary of La Muse Vénale (The Venal Muse);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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