This is an analysis of the poem Spleen (Ii) that begins with:
J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans.
Un gros meuble à tiroirs encombré de bilans,...
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXXXbXcXXXdX XXXXXXXXXX b a cacbefbcfaaXX aagghadfhb X b bbccbba aiiaXgg jjbbXecckk i b l lccbbbbffaXii XlXghhaabb X c aa aaffffccbbaX iikg llaabb k Xb a allmXbbcc kXll mmgg nnkkeeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,10,1,1,13,10,1,1,7,7,10,1,1,1,13,10,1,1,2,12,4,6,1,2,1,9,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101111011 1111010010 010101010010 100110111100 01101011110 1110010110 11010111110 111110010011 111101110011 110010111111 1111111101010 11111001100 11011011110 1100101101 11110110010 111110110010 1010111000 1101001000 101111010 1010101110 100101101010 1111001100 10111111010 11110100011111 1 11110010110100 010101100101 1001101010 110101010001 1101011101 000100011001 1011101101 110101001101 01111101 1100011101 111111101010 110110011010 10100110110 011001001101 1001111101 11001010100 01001010100 0111110100 11111111010 1010100101110 100010010010 1110110101 01000111010 11000100101 010110100 1 1111001111 1100011110 1101110101 0101110101 1110111111 0100011101 1101010101 11010100101 1110001111 1101001101 11011101010 110111101100 11001111010 10111101110 1011110111 1101001101 10010001010 01010010010 0111010111 1101010101 1011010111 0101110101 1101000101 1001010101 0101110 1 0111001110101 010101100101 01010111101 110101110101 110101011101 010011110001 110101011111 011110000101 110101011101 010101110101 1111011101010 0101011101100 101111110111 011001101101 101011111011 100101011101 1010101010000 010101010100 1111111111010 1011011011010 101001001001 1101010101001 010011010101 111101010001 0101110 01 110110110100 1110110100101 111101100111 110101101101 111101011101 010101010100 101101011101 110111010101 101011111111 001101111001 11111110111 1101101000101 0001001100101 110101011110 111111110011 010100011101 1101001011001 010111010100 111101011101 1011010110101 100101101101 100101110101 011101111101 110101010111 01011011001 1 1 11110010100 0101110101 0111110101 0101110101 1111011101 01001110110 0101111111 1101110101 1101110101 10011101 1101110101 1101010101 0111000101 0101110101 1111110111 1110010101 1011001100 1011110100 1111011101 1101011101 1001010101 0101011101 01010111001 11010111001 0101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 160
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, les, as, and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, where, i, than, a are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
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- summary of Spleen (Ii);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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