This is an analysis of the poem Celui Du Rien that begins with:

Je suis celui des pourritures grandioses
Qui s'en revient du pays mou des morts ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXa XXaaXbXXXX XXb XXXcXXdaa X XXeXXXXeXXXXXX X bbXXXXXXcaXXX X XXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,3,9,1,14,1,13,1,18,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011000100 111001111 1011101 1111111100 100111100 0101010 11100 10101110011 1011110101 01101100100 1110101011100 110011010 0110011111 1111110100 111110011001 11101111110 10101101110 111111110 11111010 111011110100 10001110011000 01101001011 1111001100100 11111101000 1011100010 110110001111 11011011100 101111110 110101100010 11100111100 1111110010 1111001111 111011110011 10111011101 10011001111 10100110010 11111111101110 1101010010 1111000100 0101101111 11101110100 1110011111011 11101101011 1000101100100 11101101111 101000111111 1111011000100 11101101 1110110101 11001110 1101011011 110100 11100110101 1111110 11001011111 110111010 111011011 111110011100 11101101100 1110110110 11110110001000 1011011011 110010010 11110111010 10111011011 111001111011 1100101010 11111011 11101011010 101011101110 100101011 101111101110 1000111101100 1011101001 11101111011 1110101111 1110111010 111101110 0101111110000 11110110001000 1111011000100 11101011111 11101111111 111101110010 111010110 11110100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 86
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; des, et, les, de, leur, la, leurs, avec, ou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, leurs, je are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

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