This is an analysis of the poem Le Léthé (Lethe) that begins with:
Viens sur mon coeur, âme cruelle et sourde,
Tigre adoré, monstre aux airs indolents; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXb X cbde edfg ghif jkli akka fmla X X kbbk kffk lhhl lXil aaaa aaaa c X jeeX kffX mddm lkkl fccf kaak e X bjjbgiig lfflXeei aXkafllf m X eaae kXXk nbXn oXXo fXlf aooa l X ciie dkfg ghif jkli kaef lmlg f X ebib dkfk gXli
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,8,8,8,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111111 101111100 11110101110 11001101 1110100110 100011100 11001111 010101101 1111010111 1110101111 100110110 111110101 110011010 111111011 101010111 10111110 1101011 1001110 101010010 111010010 11100110110 0111110 111001110 111010001 1 1101111001001 011010001001 1101100101011 001001101 01011101 0111000101 0011001010 0101001011 1101011011 00101011 1110000100110 1101010110 01010110 1010001011 10010010111 1110110 11010101 10111110 1010100101 1101010100 11101110 1010011 0010101101 11101001 010110100 1 1111110101 1011000101 1100110011 0111010101 0111101101 111101010110 11110001010 0101100111 1011110101 1001011111 0101010011 0111011101 0101110001 1011111100 0101100110 11000100011 1011010101 1101110101 0101001101 1101010011 0111010101 101111111 1100110001 1101010001 0101110 1 1011101101 1001101101 1111110011 1001110000 11011011111 011000011110 11011001010 01000111100 1101111001 1011110101 1111110011 010011101011 0111010101 11011101011 10001101011 11010010011 111000011010 11010010011 10010100101 01011101010 1101110001 111110111 1011001001 0111110001 0101110 1 1001100111 1111110011 11011100101 1011001101 0111011000 11100100110 01111011010 0101001011 1101101101 01011111110 11110101010 1101011101 01011100100 0110010101 1111100100 0101100110 1101010011 010010101100 1101010001 0101010101 01010111110 101111101 1001010101 11010101110 0101110 01 1011110101 0101010100 1011110100 11001011101 1011010111 0111110001 11010100100 0101001101 1111111101 0101110101 11111101010 11010011101 0111111101 1111010110 100100011100 111101011 101110001010 1101111000 1101010100 110101010010 11011100101 101010111 0011101101 1111000101 0101101011 1 111110101001 11010101001 1101110110010 0111101 0110110101 0101101 11101010 0110111 1101011101 0011111 1110001010 11010010110 01010110 1110001011 010001001111 11110110 110111110 1100101101 0101010011 11001110 1111011100 01010011 1010101101 11100101 01011010 1 10111001001 011010001001 1110111110010 0001010011 10110101101 11101101 11101010 0111011101 110111011 10010100101 11101100101 0101010011 01010101 10101101 10001011 111011 110011110 1101110100 101001100 110110001 11101110 10111100 1010100101 111001001 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 59
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 213
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, your, my, and, sleep, i'll, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dans, and, in 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 literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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- summary of Le Léthé (Lethe);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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