This is an analysis of the poem Le Paradis that begins with:

Des buissons lumineux fusaient comme des gerbes ;
Mille insectes, tels des prismes, vibraient dans l'air ; ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXaXbXcX XXXdaXXaXXXaXefXXXXX X cXXXfXbcXXXXXXXeXXXfXafaX X abaXXfXXXXXXgXf XXgc XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXf XXXXXhXXXXXccXXX XXXXXXXXXaX fXXXXaXbXXXXXXXX XXaXhXXXXXXaXd XXXXgXXeXfXXXXXeXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXeXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,1,25,1,15,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,16,11,16,14,36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100101110 110011101011 0111011101 101011111001 1101110111011 0110010111110 1111011001 101111111010 1111111111 1010101110100 11001101101 01001100111 11010111011 111111101111 111111111011 101001110111 10011110011 11110100011 110111011 111011101011 111101110 110011110011 101010111000 10101101011 110110111000 100101101110 11001011110 11110011010 110111110110 111010101101 111110111111 10010011101 1101110011 10111101110 01111101111110 1111111001 1 10111111111 1101110011 11011111110 11010101110 11101110010 1011011101 111110101111 1101001001011 1111101111 101010100011 01110010110 11101011010 1110011100 110011111110 110101111101 10101110011 111101110 1110111010111 1001001101011 11010101101 11010111 1110111111101 1111010101111 10101011111 100011111010 101110111110 10111010110 0101011011 1110111110 10111110 1101100 111001101110 110111101110 0101011011100 1111 11100111110 1100100 11101011110 11011011111 110 11111011111 11010101010 101110111110 11100101101 11110111111 110010111011 10001111110 11000110110 1011100110 11011001111 10111100011 110100100111 110010110111 10010111011 11101111100 1111011100 111010010110 11111111100 11111110111 10101110110 11111110 011100100100 1011111101 11101111010 111010111010 110110100110 11101101110 111110011 11111110010 10 111010 111110010010 11011110110 100100110011 101001110110 011110011100 01100101100 11100100100 11111011011 0101111110100 101011 1011111011 111 01000111 10 11111010100 1110111110100 111101011000 11011110100 1100101101110 1111111110 11101111110 101111101101 110011111011 1110110011 111010011010 11011001001 111100111001 11101011100 10011111011 111010111110 1000111001 110111101000 111101011001 1111001111110 11110111100 111011011 11101110011 1111111000 110111101100 111010111010 111100111101 11011110010 100011111110 1100111100110 11110011110 11110101011 11100111000 11110011010 1110111011100 111011101000 100011010100 111111111100 1001010111 110010010100 11101111111110 11111111011 10111010100 101111111100 101100111011 1111101101 10111010100 0111111110110 10110110111 011011111 11101111111 1101111011 111011101010 111101011010 11110111011 100111111 1011010111 11010111011 11101001110 011011110 110011111011 1101000111010 11110111110 110111100 111111111001 111001110100 110011111001 1101101110100 10101110010 11011100110 100001101001 1111011110 111110111011 111111001010 110001001011 1110011110 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 513
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 199
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, les, de, et, m, me, la, le, vous, aux are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Le Paradis;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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