This is an analysis of the poem Obsession that begins with:
Grands bois, vous m'effrayez comme des cathédrales;
Vous hurlez comme l'orgue; et dans nos coeurs maudits,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXb XXX c defX gXeX dbX edg X c fdfd Xfdf dda dda X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011100 11011111110 10101110011 1011010100 1111101111100 1011101101110 011010101100 11101011011 1111011110 1110111010 111101101101 1111101110 110100011110 11100101100 010 1111011010 11101010111 101010111101 01010010100 111101101110 111001011101 00101101101 110000110001 1111110111 11101011 111100101100 1010001010 011110011110 100101011110 010110100 010 1101010111 1111011111 1101010101 1010100101 11011101110 01001101010 0101110111 00110100010 1111110111 1101010111 1111010101 11011010101 1011110101 0101011101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- 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; de, le, your, of, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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