This is an analysis of the poem Les Cathédrales that begins with:
Au fond du choeur monumental,
D'où leur splendeur s'érige ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXXbX cXXXXXXX XX XXX XX XXXX XX dd XX cX XX XX XX XX XX Xb XX Xc XX bXaXX XXXXXaXX XXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,6,6,8,2,3,2,4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 11101 11010010 101010100 1011111 11010100 11001100 11101010 1100101 1100010 01010101 111111 1111010101 1111011 101101010 1110110010 1110111110 10011001 1110000110110 010111110 1100 10110110 11111011 1110011 010111 011010 01011111 11101100 11101101 11001110011 10011011 10110001 1110110 1111111110 101101110010 1001101110 111111100 1110110 1111111110 1011111101110 10111000110 1111010 1001011 1110110 1111111110 10110111001 11101001001 1110110 1111111110 101100101 111010110110 1110110 1111111110 101101110111 1110111011110 1110110 1111111110 1011001011 111011110110 1110110 1111111110 101100111001 1011101011 1110110 1111111110 1011010110 11011110011 1110110 1111111110 110010101 1110100 11011010 01011000 1011110010 11001111100 0111110010 110011111101 01110010110 10011111010 11111001 110111101 1000 1011101110 1110100111010 1110101110 11110111010 1110101010 1001101101000 11101111010 11111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; les, de, et, la, qui, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, voici are repeated.
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- summary of Les Cathédrales;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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