This is an analysis of the poem Les Phares (The Beacons) that begins with:
Rubens, fleuve d'oubli, jardin de la paresse,
Oreiller de chair fraîche où l'on ne peut aimer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XbXc XXXX cXXX XXXX XdXX XXXX XdXe XXXf XXXX XXXX C Xghi ecjh Xbkc kXXc bkkc bcdb cbkc ckXe XcXf ccXc bhlh X C eiei mama abab cccc Xbkb bkbk Xcdc lala Xccc idid fhfh l c kgkg blbl lXlc jcXc dcdc cdcd Xncn kaka bfbf ccXc cich b C ogbi ecch cboh ck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100110 1000111111110 1111111011 11101111111 10010101011 111010101110 110110001 11011110111 111101100100 1111011100 11111101100 11101010100 101111111101 111111111011 11010111100 101111011 10010100001 11110011110 111101111 10100100110 1011001111100 11100101010 111111110 1101111100 101001010100 0101011101110 010110110101 11011100111 000101111010 10111010101 111101110010 1011101010 1100110110 11001111111 11110111000 111110110100 1111111000 11101111 11110111000 110010101111 11101001010 11101001010 11101011111 1110110110 010 101000100100100 1001111101 1111110100 101001101001 101010100010 011010011 10100010011 001011101110 111011010100 101010001101 1101010101 1011101101 1011001110011 1000111011 1001010010 1110100110 1011000011110 1010100010 1110110101 1010101000101 10100101010101 10010011010101 110101010001 1001001010001 101110011 01001000101010 0110101010110 1001101010 000101101110 10101011101 11001011100 110101010 110110011000 11111001111 11100101010100 111101001100 1101111010100 1101101010101 11010101010100 0101011001 11010101 1111010100 110101110101 11010101010100 010110100 010 10010110010 1011111100 11110111010 11010100101 1101010101 1101010001 1011110101 1101110001 1111100101 0101111101 01011000101 1101011001 11010101110 1101111101 01101001110 0101010111 1001010001 0101010101 0111011111 1001010001 1001001101 1101110111 1111100101 0100010111 10011101100 01011101010 10101010101 01110100010 0101110101 0000110101 11010111001 1101111001 11010011000 1100111101 11010101010 1011011001 0101000101 0101010101 0101010101 0101000101 1100000101 101111010100 1011111101 010101010100 0101110 11 1011000100 1001111101 1101010101 1111111101 110111101 0101010101 11001111101 1111111101 11010100110 1101011100 1001011111 10011110101 1101110101 1101011111 1101011111 110010111001 0101010101 1111010101 11001100101 1001010101 1011001101 1101010101 1001011101 1111010101 1010011110 1101000101 10001011101 11010100101 1000110101 11001110101 01011000101 111100111001 1101001101 1100111000 0101011101 11110100100 1001010100 11011000101 0101010100 0101010101 11010100111 0111011101 0101110101 1101110100 0101101011 010 1010010001001 1001111101 1111110011 1010011010001 101011010010 111010011 1010001011 01011111010 1111101010 10101000101 11010101 10101011010 10101011111101 100011100011 1001010011 11101010 10010100001 1110010010001 111100111010110 101010100001 100100001001 1101101010 0011001001000101 1001000101 10110011 10010101 100001011010 10101100110 0001010111010 10110110011 11001011100 110101010 110110011 11001111011 111001010001010 001101001100 00010101010100 110011010101 01010010100 01001010011 110111101010 11101100 10101110101 1101101010100 0101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 63
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 233
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; la, des, de, un, ces, mille, of, in, these, they, thousand, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, ces, c'est, que, of, these, they, a, where, it are repeated.
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- summary of Les Phares (The Beacons);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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