This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cabalistique that begins with:

Dans notre vie âcre et fiévreuse
Ta splendeur étrange apparaît,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11011110 1101100 110011110 111011101 11011101 1110 11101110 1111000 1111010 1110010 11001 11111110 11010110 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et is repeated.

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  • summary of Sonnet Cabalistique;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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