This is an analysis of the poem Pour Chercher Du Nouveau that begins with:

Call up the lordly daemon that in Cimmeria dwells
Amid the vaults untrodden, long-sealed with lethal spells,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa aaa Xaa bbX ccc dXd bbb eee XXX fffXaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101001 0101100110101 0100110010101 1101010111101 0101110110111 0111110110101 1001011110101 0101010101001 0111010010100 1101010111101 10010010111001 111010100111000 0101010110101 0101110011001 1100010110101 1000110010011 0101010010100 01010100100010 1101010111101 0101010010001 1101100011101 11101100101101 01001010010111 1110010010101 11101010011100 01010010011111 0101110010010 11101010110101 0101010011001 11101010110101 1101010010011 1101010011101 0101110110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • 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; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words amid, the, from, who are repeated.

    The author used the same words call, who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Pour Chercher Du Nouveau;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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