This is an analysis of the poem Le Tonneau De La Haine (The Cask Of Hate) that begins with:
La Haine est le tonneau des pâles Danaïdes;
La Vengeance éperdue aux bras rouges et forts...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXb XXX Xcc d Xeaf aghb gdX fic X i ifif Xghg ebe bcc Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011100 11001111011 110011110 011101111011 0111110110 11101101110 11111101001100 111100100011 110111011110 11101110101 11110101101 111010100110 111011110100 01110101001110 101 10001001100 0101001111 1010001010 110001101001 01011010001 110101000111 1001101010 101110010111 1000100010 1101110011 110101101010 110010111010 100010001001 1111010101010 010110100 0101 010011001 1001011101 10000010001 0111010101 0111010110 1101000111 01110111010 0101010101 10010001010 1101100101 11010101110 1100110011 11010011010 10011101010 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hate is repeated).
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- history of its creation;
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