This is an analysis of the poem Sed Non Satiata (Unslakeable Lust) that begins with:
Bizarre déité, brune comme les nuits,
Au parfum mélangé de musc et de havane,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXX bXX c defc Xgbg hXg XaX X X cXXc iXXi Xgj Xbj h X kXbkXXbk cXbccX e X dXfX kXXe cag Xaj X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,6,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111 1101011010 10110010110 10111111110 1111101011 100111101110 11111101100 111110110110 111111100011 111011101 11111101110011 11111111101 110110111110 110011100100 1001 1001001101 100001001011 10110100010 101001100111 101010010001 010011011101 10111010110101 111010111011 111111011011 110010101111 010101001111 011110010100 0111011101 001011100100 010110100 11100 1101110001 11010110100 10110100100 1001110001 1101011111 1101010011 1101010101 1101111111 11111111100 10010111010 1111110101 1111110100 0111100101 0101010011 0101110 11100 101101101100 100001011100 110111001010 111101010100 1011001010111 110111100110 1101011010101 1110111111010 011111111101 1101101111000 1111001011111 111101000111 011101011101 101111000100 0101110 11100 1100111 10101011100 100010100010 10000100110110 1010100101000100 0010011110101 110101010111 11101011111 011111100110 110010111111 111101111 111011001 011101101 0110100001011 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 82
- 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, of, to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Sed Non Satiata (Unslakeable Lust);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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