This is an analysis of the poem Une Vie Spectrale that begins with:
Je fus longtemps un vieux fantôme,
Flottant léger comme un arome...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 1011110 1001101 11110100 110011100 110110 110111 11101100 111101110 11111100 11011010 11010111 110111 1111110 1011001 1111000 11101100 1101110 1111110 11011010 111111 11010010 11000100 1000111 11101111 1111101111 11001100 111110101 1100110 11101111 11100111 1110111 1011100 10011110 10111110 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, je, un are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, je are repeated.
The author used the same words j'ai, je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, les are repeated).
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- summary of Une Vie Spectrale;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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