This is an analysis of the poem Phantasma that begins with:

J’ai rêvé l’archipel parfumé, montagneux,
Perdu dans une mer inconnue et profonde...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XaXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1110010100 1011110110 1010101111 10111011001 10101110110 1101111111 1111011110110 1111011111 111110111011 110101010100 111100111001 11101101010 111101111010 1111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; est, un are repeated.

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  • summary of Phantasma;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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