This is an analysis of the poem La Serpent Qui Danse (The Dancing Serpent) that begins with:
Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
De ton corps si beau,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbXb XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX dXXc XXXe D Xfgh ecib bjgi Jdjj cfbX XbjD bkci Xbbl fmXD X b XXmb kfkf fXff fnfn mjmj dfdf cXcb dldl odod g d dpdp efef fjfj Xbcb mjmj jXjD kfkf llll fdfd h D naXg Xjib mmbi Jnjf hXmh ljXD bkmn mnbl fnXD Xn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100 01111 111100 10011 1110010 1101 11001100 11111 111011 11010 111100 11110 111111111 01110 111011111 11001 1110110 1100 11011011 1111 10100110 1110 111010110 111 111111110 11110 1111111 11011 11110111 11010 1101110 11011 11111101 10110 110111 1011 01010 10010111 0101 01101100 1011 01110101 00101 01001001 01111 10101010 00101 110111 10101 11110001 01011 111101110 1011 01110010 01010 11101110 101001 10010100 11111 10011101 001100 11101011 10101 11010111 01001 10110101 010010 101001110 001011 011101001 101100 0101110 1011 010110100 01110 110111110 1101000 111101010 0110010 10110111 110011 01011101 010111 110100010 0101100 010101110 1101010 11110101 1001110 11110111 1101110 011100010 101101 100001010 110101 1001001110 110111 101100110 010111 11010101 1011110 01010111 010001 11110101 110001 01001101 100111 0111010010 010111 01010110010 010111 0101110 1010 10010101 110101 01110101 101101 11110111 101101 01001111 010111 11100111 111111 11110110 110111 1010101100 110101 11110101 111101 1101001010 111101 101110110 010101 10010011 111110 11110101 001100 11010101 0111010 11010101 0110010 11110001 101101 11010011 100111 110101001 010011 01011101 101101 0101110 01010 11101110010 01011 100101011 1000100 11110 1010 10101 001111 10110 001010 110101 11101 11110001 01110 111111 01010 10101001 01010 11101110 101001 1001011 1101 01000100 001100 11101110 101001 100101110 010010 10111010 001010 1101010 0010011 1111101001 1010 0101110 1011 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 53
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 193
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; le, et, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, your are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase scented connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of La Serpent Qui Danse (The Dancing Serpent);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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