This is an analysis of the poem Les Baptêmes that begins with:
Vers son manoir de marbre,
Qui domine les bois, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaaXb XXXbXcXXXX dXcXXXeXXX XXXXXXXXXXbXXe XfXXc bXXXXXXXdXXX XdXX XXXbfXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XgXXgXbXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,10,10,14,5,12,4,10,10,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 101011 1111110 01011 101111011010 01010110 11100111 111011110 101110 0111110 0111 11111010 110111110 11111010 101111010 110010100 1111101111 111001101000 10101011110 11001110 11011110 110111011 110110110 1100100 10010100 1110111110 1110111 11111111 101110 1110011 10111 110010110 111110010 1111101 11101111 110111110 10001111 11111 111111 11010110 110110 11111 111110110 111101110 111100101 01010110 110101101 11001111 1101011010 10111110011 1111110111110 11111111 01011111 10111111 111111 110011 010111010 01101111010 1101111 11111011 111110010 101010001 111111111 101111 1011011 10010101 11010110110 1111010110 1101011011 11 1011101011 111010 110011101110 110010111010 111001001 11101101 1011110 1111101 100111110 111110 11101111 1100110 111110 1101100100 111011011 10111111 1010110110 111 10111001 1110111010 10010110011 01011010 111010111 01010100 1001 0111011 10110011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, les are repeated.
The author used the same word ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, cheveux, e are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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- summary of Les Baptêmes;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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