This is an analysis of the poem Plainte that begins with:
Vrai sauvage égaré dans la ville de pierre,
À la clarté du gaz je végète et je meurs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111001 11011111111 111110110110 10011010110 11101011111 1111111110000 11011110111 11100111101 11101111101 0101001111 1111110111 111110110001 1111010110 111010011101 110110110111 11101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; la, les, et, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word je is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase loin connects the lines.
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- summary of Plainte;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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