This is an analysis of the poem La Dame En Noir that begins with:
Dans la ville d'ébène et d'or,
Sombre dame des carrefours, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa aXXaA XXba XXX XXXX XXXc XX aXXd XXbX XXaX aXXX XXXX cXXX XXX aXXXXXeXaA XabX XXXX XcXd XXX XeXX XXXXXXXXX XXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,3,4,4,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,10,4,4,4,3,4,9,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111100 1001101 10011 11011011011 11100111 11001111100 110011100011 1110011111 1011100111 11001011 11101111 1111101 111100 10010111 100 11010111111 11101010010 101100100010 11101110111 101101110 111111111111 11101011110 11101111 111100 10010111 1111101 101011100 1111111 11101011 1100101 10111100 10100011 11101100 11111110 11101101 101011 1011111 1110111 0110101 1101110 11101111 11010110 0111100 1011011 01101011 10101111 11111 11010110 100111 111100 10010111 100 0110101101 111101111010 11110111000 0110101110 101010011 11010 110111011 11001111 110011100011 1110011111 10110111011 1110110111 10110100111 101110011 1110101100010 11110011 11101010010 11010111111 101101110 1011110101 11101110 1100110 111100 10010111 100 11101110 111011101 11101110 10001110 1101001100 111101100 10101111000 11110111000 111111011 111111111 11101110 1111001 10111110111111 111100 10010111 100 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; si, mes, vers, quel, de, et, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qu'attendre, si, et, qui are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vres is repeated).
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