This is an analysis of the poem La Foule that begins with:
En ces villes d'ombre et d'ébène
D'où s'élèvent des feux prodigieux ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXAXXXaXXaXXXXXXaXX aaXXXXaXaXXX XXXbXXXaXXXX XcXXXcXXdXXXXXaXXaacX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXccXXbXXXXXXXXXXAXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,12,12,21,41,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1111100 11101111 1011111110 011110 111010101 0110101010 11110110011 111011100 111001001 11110111011 10 11111101110 110111110 01111111101 1111110010 1110111110 1010101101000 111110111 1111101111100 111010110110 011110101101 11101010110 110011011110 11001001110 10111011100 111011010110 101111111100 110110011101 10101111100 011110111101 11111111010 10110111100 11011011010 1101100110001 110101110 11111111 11101111111 111011110011 101101111 0101101010 10101001 11001111100 11010101100 11111111 101100111000 111110011110 11 11 11111101 11001110100 111010110111 10111011010 10110110010 1111111110 11101001001 1010111110 1101010 11011110 111110101011 1111110 10110110 1101111010 10110110010 010111111100 1110111 11111110 111111001 111011101 101 1111101011000 011010110100 11001100 110111110 11100110010 101011110 101101110 11 1111101000 101010 111010110001 110101110 1000111011 110111101100 1111010 1011110100 111001011010 11101010 110010101100 101100101001 011010101001 1110100 1100111 10011011 1110111110 11110111100 01011110100 111100111100 1111110110 1111111101 11101110111 1111010011 101100111100 10101111111 111010101 011101010 1110111010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 891
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; leurs, la, de, et, des, les, chaque, le, o, te are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, tout, voici, comme, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, es are repeated).
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- summary of La Foule;
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- history of its creation;
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