This is an analysis of the poem A La Gloire Des Cieux that begins with:

L'infini tout entier transparaît sous les voiles
Que lui tissent les doigts des hivers radieux...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXXXXXXXXXXXbbaXXXXcXXXaXXXXbbXXcXXXAXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110100111 110101111010 1110111011 1101111010 11110111101 10111111100 11011111010 1010000111000 11111011011 111010111100 1111100100100 11111011111 1101011100 10101110110 11111110010 111010101010 1101101110 1011000111110 10001111000 11010101100 110111111011 11110111010111 110000110010 11101111110 1100111111 0101001101 1111100101110 11100001010 11001010101 111001101100 11110101010 11110111111 11101111011 101101111 111 11111110111 111011011011 100110100111 110101111010 1110111011 1101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1919
  • Average number of words per stanza: 347
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; le, et, la, qui, ces, de are repeated.

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  • summary of A La Gloire Des Cieux;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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