This is an analysis of the poem Le Poison (The Poison) that begins with:

Le vin sait revêtir le plus sordide bouge
D'un luxe miraculeux, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XaXXb c defbg haXie iiaah jXdcX X i kiiki ijjXj liili bbkbk d c aiiaX cggXe dXbdb iXfif Xh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,1,5,5,5,5,1,1,5,5,5,5,1,1,5,5,5,5,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111001101 111000 11101110100 1101101 11011011110 101001111010 10100 1000011110 10101110 1011101100 110111101011 0110111 111110111110 1101011 1111011010 1101111010010 011011 1111011110 110010 111011011 10 111001011010 0100100 111111001001 0010011 1011000101 100101110100 1000100 11101011000 1011010 1010100100 110110001011 0110111 111110110101 1110101 011101101 110110001010 0110010 101011010101 000100 11000100101 010110100 10 11010101 01010001 11110001 10011101 11011001 1000100010 110110110 010111010 01110001000 011100010 10110111 11010111 11111111 11011011 11111111 10110111 01110111 110001001 10010101 10010101 0101110 010 1101010101 011101 01110000101 0100111 1110011100 11001011111 000101 1011010100 011100 1001010100 1101110101 011110 11111100101 1101000 1011010111 1101111111 011100 110101101 110101 1111011101 0101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same words tout, all, dread at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Le Poison (The Poison);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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