This is an analysis of the poem Spleen (I) that begins with:
Pluviôse, irrité contre la ville entière,
De son urne à grands flots verse un froid ténébreux...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXb XcX de fggb dfXh Xci ebd X X biib gjjg cch eeh k f lefe Xdgd hdb hbd l Xe keke keke aak ggkXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,2,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,2,4,4,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010111010 011111111 11100001100 11100111010 11101010110 10111111110 111111110 101111110 010111011110 10011011010 100101110101 101011100 01010111101 10100001101 11 1 1010101000110 1001110101 101100001111 11010101 1110011011 1011010100 0101110100011 0011001001 01110101 010000110101 100101100101 11010001100110 01010110101 101000011101 010110100 11 0101111111 10010111010 10011111110 1101010101 1111010101 10010101001 0101110101 0100011001 0111111101 100101001 1001010101 0100010011 0101110101 1001010101 0101110 11010 10101111101 010111011101 0101010001010 111101010001 1111010101010 110101001011 1100100011101 0101110111101 010111010101 1001001101101 1101110110011 001101110101 010101101101 100101011101 01011011001 1 1 0101010100 1001100101 0111010111 0111010101 1001011101 1001011010 0101110101 1011011101 01011101010 01010101110 1001011111 1100010011 0101110101 11100101101 0101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; de, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
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- summary of Spleen (I);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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