This is an analysis of the poem Spleen (Iv) that begins with:
Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle
Sur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXX bXabcbcdXbbddXbaXXcXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,21,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111110 11010111110 110100100101 11111111111 111011111010 11011110 11101101110 111101111010 11110110010 111010110 1101110100 11101110110 1101110101 110101110100 1011101011100 11110110000 101100110110 1010011110 10111010100 1111011011 10100 1 1011011101 1010101001010 10010100010 110101100101 101010001010 011101 1100100101 110010101010 1011010101 1010100110 1010101010 10111001011 11101101 110101110 101100100110 1000101001 1011110110 1110011110 1101001010 11111011 10100010010101010011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of is repeated.
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- summary of Spleen (Iv);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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