This is an analysis of the poem La Bourse that begins with:

Comme un torse de pierre et de métal debout
Le monument de l'or dans les ténèbres bout....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XA bXXX XXXcXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXdXXXcXXXXXeX XeXXXXXXXdXfXecXXXX XeXXXd bXX XXXXXfXXXXXX XXdA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,8,37,19,6,3,12,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100110110 0100011111 1110111111001 1011100 110110010 10 1101011110 11111110 11011110 1101111 11010111 10111110 10100111 1111111110 010001011101 11010111011 1011111 100111110 01110011 0110110 110111 1111111 1001110111 1100110 1101110 11101100 11010 1010110 10100100 01101 1111110111 101011010100 110010100110100 101111110 1111010 111001110 1110110 11001110 10001101 11111101 1101011 110111000 110110 1011000101 1111101000 11011110 110110110 110011100 101111010 10110 1110 11011111110 111100101 111100110 11000 11010000 1011111101 110111100 100010 101100 111101111011111 1110101 111101001 100110100 111010011 11101100 111010100 110010010 110011101100 10001000 11111111110 11111010 101100110110 1110111011 11110011 0111101001 11111111101 11101101 1001110 01111001 1111111101 111110 11101011 1110001010 11000110 0111001100100100 1110100 111001101 111111011010 111010 100011010 11100110110 11111111010 0110110001 0100011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 95
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et, la, vre, en, s, se, l'or, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, les, par, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vre, bres, l'or are repeated).

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  • summary of La Bourse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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