This is an analysis of the poem L'Immobile Beauté that begins with:

L'immobile beauté
Des soirs d'été,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001 111 1110111 11010 1111101 011111 010111010 11110110 1010111111010 01110111 111111110 1101110001 11111111111 11011110110 1110110011 111011101110 101011010 111010 11 101 110110111110 1110 1111000010 0100111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; de, d'en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

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  • summary of L'Immobile Beauté;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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