This is an analysis of the poem Spleen (Iii) that begins with:
Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux,
Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXbXXbXXXXX c aadddecafgXchidhda X c Xgddjjccffkkaabbll h c mmddeeiiggcciieeaa h e fnfnhhggooccaaaXhh n Xc aadXeebbooccaabbdd j X eaXjgehhgflliigdjcXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,18,1,1,18,1,1,18,1,1,18,1,2,18,1,1,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011110 11100111011 10110101100 11011110101 111110110110 1111011010 01010010101 1110101011010 111001110110 111101111011 111011010010 11011001110 0011101011101 0111001100 1111011110110 11111111011100 1111101101 1111011101 11 1110100101 101100111101 110010100010 101001110100 101111001110 101010010100 010010001001 1101010010010 010101010101 0101011001010 1101111001 0101001100 0100110111010 01101010100 101101110101 110111010001 110101010011 10110010101 010110100 1 0101011101 1100110111 11011100010 11010111110 1101110111 1101010011 1001010001 1001010101 1101111101 1001111111 1111011101 0101001001 0111111101 0101001101 1011101101 1101110101 11010001010 11010101110 0101110 1 0101001101 1101101111 1101010101 1101010001 1011110100 0101010100 0100010101 1101110101 0101010101 1001000111 1111001011 10011010100 01011011001 1001010100 1001011100 1101000100 1101101111 010110111 01011010 11001010 010100111110 0111001111101 110101010101 1100101011111 1001010010101 0100101101011 011101011101 010001010101 1100101011101 110111110001 110111110111 010101001100 010100111101 010100010101 101111110101 111101010100 010111111111 11001100111 01011011001 1 1 0101010111 1011001111 1100010101 0111001100 1111010100 1100110100 01001010101 1101010101 0101010101 1110011111 1001011100 1101110101 1101111101 0101010101 1001010101 010111101 1101111111 1111110101 0101101011 1 11101001010 11110011111 10100010101 110101100101 101101010111 010011000100 0011000111 11011001010 0101010001 0100011111 1111110110010 01010111010 0100111111 1001001100 1001110101 010101001101 11010101 1111110101 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 146
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; ni, de, and, his, nor, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, and, the, a, his, nor are repeated.
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- summary of Spleen (Iii);
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