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

Routes de fer vers l'horizon :
Blocs de cendres, talus de schistes,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXbX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXcaXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXa XXXXXX abXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,8,6,8,6,6,23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100 101010010 11111101 1111110 1101110 111010110 11101011 11101101 10101001 101011100100 11001101 101101 101100100 1110011100 1101 1100110 111101010 110111111 101011 10111011 0110 1100100 11110110011 1110111 101110011010 1101110 1111110111 111111010 0101 0101 1000 111001100 1011001101 111111011 111101011 1111001100 111101 111101 101011011101 11010 11011110 11111001 1110110110 1011010 10110011111 10110 111110111010 101101101110 1101101011 10101101100 11111110110 111111101 1010001010100 1101001100111 111010110110 111111101110 111001111011100 1011111110110 11111001111010 11111011101 111111110 11110111111 111100110111 1100110111000 10111110111 0110111010 111100101011 10011010101110 1100101000110 11001011010 01011101010 111010010110 1011011011 11111010110111 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, taient, pour, les, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bas, te are repeated).

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

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