This is an analysis of the poem Saint Sébastien that begins with:
Je suis inutile et je suis nuisible ;
Ma peau a les tons qu’il faut pour la cible....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100111110 1101111111 101101010 101011010 110101110 11010101 11110111 101110111 111111111100 1101011011 111101111 1010011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; la, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cieux is repeated).
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More information about poems by Charles Cros
- Analysis of Saint Sébastien
- Analysis of Jeune Homme
- Analysis of La Vision Du Grand Canal Royal Des Deux Mers
