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

Mon coeur, Je l'ai rempli du beau tumulte humain :
Tout ce qui fut vivant et haletant sur terre,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcX XXXXXXXdb XXXXcXcXccXXdXXXXcXXX XXXcXXXadc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,21,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110011010 111110110011 110101101 111111001 11111010011 101011011111 100111111010 111101110 1111010101 11110011011100 101111110111 010010111100 11111111110 10010010110 111010101101 11011110011 100111101010 1111111110110 1001010101110 101101101111 1011110111111 10101000011 10011111110 111101101 1110101001011 101111001101 10101011011 101011110111 10001110111 1111001010 100110111010 100111100011 111111010100 01111110011 1000110111 101111111011 101110011100 1101111101000 11001111011 11110011 101110111011 1101111111011 1100101101 11110110101 101100110011 10111111111 11111101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, plus, un are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tales is repeated).

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

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