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

Toi qui, comme un coup de couteau,
Dans mon coeur plaintif es entrée;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb XcdX XXXe XfXX XXXX gXXb B hfii Ciic jcke Xack hdia cefX X B ilil icic kjkj imiX idXd gXbX l B hehe Xcfc lfXl iiii idid lfFX c B ffff fcfc klkl XkXkiiii ffFX m B iidX lCic jlgd iaia idda ncXX X B fffi acdc nfnf iaiX cjca gffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,8,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 11110110 1111110 011111 0101100 1111101 111111 101011 111011 111010 11100110 101011 110110 0100110 11111010 010011 1010101 1111111 1111101 110010 1001100 1110110 11010000 0100110 010 11101001 101101 111101 010110101 01111101 01010101 10010101 1010001 101010001 1010001 1010001 101001 110110 01111100 1110010 01101100 01110101 0100101 11101001 01100100 10001010 11010101 11010101 001001100 010110100 010 1110101 00110101 1110101 01011101 01010111 11110101 01010101 10010001 110100001 110100011 110100001 11111111 11100101 01111101 10010111 01110010 11010101 11001101 111100100 01110101 11001000100 10010101 1101000110 111100010 0101110 010 11010101 11001111 01010011 11010101 011011100 01110101 10011101 11000111 11000111 11001101 11001110 01101101 11100011 01111101 01011101 01010101 0101101 11011111 11110011 11110001 11011001 01101101 11010101 01001101 0101110 010 11010101 10001101 11010101 11010111 01110111 10111101 10011111 10010001 01010001 01010001 01000101 1110011 11101101 11011100 11100100 11001100 11110011 11011101 10100001 01100101 11011101 01101101 11010101 11011110 0101110 010 11110101 00110111 11110101 011111000 10001101 01111101 1010101 1010001 1010001 10100010 110101010 1111111 11000101 01111100 1100010010 11010100 01110101 11010101 1110001 0110100 11001011 1011001 101101101 11000101 01011010 010 1110101 11010101 1110101 01011101 01110100 11111101 10011101 11010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 11010011 11010011 01011100 01011101 1101000 010101010 01001101 110101010 01100100 1000110100 1101011 11110101 0101001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 52
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 185
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; comme, like, to, or, as, i, thy, my, his, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, comme, like, of, or, i, as, the, thy, to are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word vampire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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