This is an analysis of the poem Un Fantôme (A Phantom) that begins with:
I Les Ténèbres
Dans les caveaux d'insondable tristesse...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXaX XXXb XXXbX X X XXXX cXbX XXX XbX D XXXe XXXX XXX XXX F XXXX XXac gXg XXX H i haci giff cee eei H gXja ffde khc fdc H lmhe eneh ggX nkd F ciegXXoc gnl fda X H c dppd Xffi lnn laa H gkXk bqqb hhc Xrc H fXlf chhX lmm lss F fXef ococ aal ld
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,5,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,8,3,3,1,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,6,1,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111 111010010 10101110 1101110111 111011101 11111110110 1011111 110011010 11110111111 110111011 1101011010 1101100 111011001 1110011100 111110100 1010 101110010 101011100 111011011 1101011 11010111 1010110 101011101 010111110 011010011 100110001 110101011 1110100110 1101101 1110110010 1010 1111010110 110111011 1111111110 110001010 101010110 1001111 11001101 11101010010 111111101010 111010110 11010000 1110010101 11111100 101110001 1010 1101111110 0101111100 01111101110 0111111110 0110101110 0101111110 111111011 11010111111 111111101 110110010 11110111 1010011101 1111010111 111110111 010 1010 0010101001 0111010101 1011011010 1010111010 0101010101 0101010110 1010010101 11111111 1111110110 0101011010 1010101010 10010110 1101110100 01111100 1001 10111101 01011100 1100110101 10010010001 0110010101 0101110101 1010010110 110010010 0010101010 1001101011 01110101 1001010110 1100001100 1101001001 101 1010110010 101000101 1001001011 1101000110 1101010100 1001100010 10101010 11011001 1110111101 1101101011 01001000 00100010110 10110111 1101110010 1010 0111110 010101111 0111110110 011011111 0110101100 0101110110 1010010111 1010110110 1110100101 1111010011 10110011 11000111 1010101100 0111110111 010110100 010 101 111111110 010110001 11010101 010111110 010101110 01111111 11110101 01100101 010101010 01110101 01010101 110011010 11001010 1110001 1001 10111101 01011101 011100110 11110101 01110101 01011001 11000101 10010101 00110111 11110001 011100101 01010101 11110001 10010101 101 10110101 110101110 111101110 01010101 01010111 101111000 110100010 10010101 11111101 01100101 11010101 01110001 01010001 01010001 1010 1011010111 010101100110 01111101110 0101111101 01011100010 10110010101 11011101010 0101011101 1111100101 11010101001 1001000101 1001111101 11010111010 01111101110 0101110 10 0111110101 01011111001 1111011110 1001011111 1011011100 1011110101 1011110101 1110011101 1011010101 1111010101 101101011 1001110001 1111011101 1111110111 001001010100101100010 0101110 010 0111110100 11110111101 0111110111 1111111101 0101110011 0111010101 1101010111 0101011111 1111010101 01110001001 1101011111 01001111001 11011100011 0111110111 001001010100101100010 01011011001 11 11100 100100101 11010101 11110111 11000101 11011101 01001101 11010111 11110111 10011101 01010001 110101011 100101001 11110101 11111100 1010 11010101 11011100 11001101 01000101 11010100 00110101 11110101 110100100 01111101 11010101 01110110 10011101 10110100 10010101 1010 11000101 10010100 01010100 10000111 11101101 010101010 110100110 11010101 11011111 11010111 010001110 011101010 111111110 0101010010 1010 11010101 11111101 00111101 01011111 00110100 01010100 11110101 10010101 10110100 101101001 11110100 11000111 10110101 01111100 0101101011 01 101 10111010 00101011100 110011101 1101010011 110010101 111111 10101010110 0100100100 0010101 01001100100 11010101 1001011010 10100011 0100101 101 101110010 101100111 11010010110 01001100010010 0111010 100001010 101000110000 101101011 11111011111 1110100101000 110100 010010110 111100110 101110010 001001010100111100010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 110
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 335
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, le, du, de, and, of, those, her, my, out, that, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, de, where, of, the, out are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bres is repeated).
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- summary of Un Fantôme (A Phantom);
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