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

Du fond des brumes,
Avec tous ses étages en voyage...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXaabXc XXXddX XXXXXXXbXX XXXaXXXXX XeXXXXXXXXXbeXX XXXXXXXXXXeXXXXeeX XXXXXXXXXXXcX XXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,8,6,10,9,15,18,13,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110 101110110 1011101110 111110 11 1111101 111101 111111100 11011100 11111110 1111001 10111101 1111000 10 111111100 1110 110 11101111 11110111 1110111 0101111111 10101 1010111 1101101 111001111001 11011100110 10011001 110101101 11011100 1110110110 110010111 110001110111 111010111101 11101001 1011101011010 111001100100 100110 11110011100 111110 1111101011 1011110 1001010111 100001111101 11100101011 11111110 1100111111 10101110 1111000 111110111 1101100 1110111000 111010000 11101110 1111 1011011110 011111 11101001 10101010110 01101110 11101011 11101011 111010110 1101011 01011101 1011111011 01111110 111011100110 11101110 11000010 11110101110 1101110 110110111011 11101100111 110111 1010111011110 111011111 1001111 1010101 1001111100 11101011010010 1011111110 10110111 10010001101 11111101011 1110101010 11011010 111110111001 11100110110 111110100 1010100 11101111000 11111001011 111111101101 01110111100 1111000 1110110 1110100 11101011100 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; des, de, les, et, le, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ce, des, et, la are repeated.

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

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  • summary of La Ville;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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