This is an analysis of the poem Une Gravure Fantastique (A Fantastic Engraving) that begins with:
Ce spectre singulier n'a pour toute toilette,
Grotesquement campé sur son front de squelette,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXbbXb c XXadefdcecdbbb X g eeeeffhhiiggff j c jjcckkdd llbbcc Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,8,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010011110 10001111010 10110100100 11011110110 1110110000 1111011100 110010110011 110100110100 0100111011 11101111101 110111100110 010001111010 11011101111 11001010101 00101 11101101 10101010110 0101101001 0110111101 0101011010101 111010111010 10011011 110101000101 0100100101 100101111101 101010101001 011011101010 110010001101 010010010110 010110100 010010 01010101010 11010101010 0111110001 0101111101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1001000101 0101011101 0101110011 11010101010 01111111010 0101011111 10010010101 0101110 0101 0101011111 0101100100 1101010101 1111110101 0101010101 1101110101 01001110011 1001001111 01001011111 1101011101 1101010001 11010010011 1001110101 11001110101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Une Gravure Fantastique (A Fantastic Engraving);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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