This is an analysis of the poem Les Fièvres that begins with:

La plaine, au loin, est uniforme et morne
Et l'étendue est vide et grise ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXXXX XXXXbX XXcX XXXXXX XXXXXbXbbXX XXXaabaXXXX XaXdXXXXXXX XXaXXcXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXaXXXXXX aXXXXXX aXddcXaXXXXcX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,4,6,11,11,11,12,8,12,7,13,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110011 1101111 1101111 1100111 111011110 110011100 111111 11111010 10111011 011100110 101101111 11110100 11111011 1110 0111 101101000 101110 111111 1111110 111011010 11101100 1101101 10111111 111101 11 010 0111011 1101011 1101 11011110 1110010110 1111101 11101111 11100100 1011010 1111 10101111111 11 101111 1000111 1101011 11101101111 111011 11111111101 111111111 1110111010 11001111 11101111 101101111110 1101100 1101100 111111101 011111 11010010 11111110 11001101 1110010110 111110110 10 1000111000 111110110 111111100 11101111 0111011110 1111110 100111010 1101101 110101 11001100 1101001101 10 101011111010 1100100 1101111 10111100 10111100 10111110 11100110 10100110 11110010110 1111 11111001000 1111010110 1000111 110010101100 0110100 1100111100 1110011 1111101011 111011100 1111010 111100110110 1111000 110110100 111111000 1110111110 11101110 10100110 1011111101 11001011 1010100010110 11011110 1011011 111111110 111111 1110111010 1110100101010 111110 1111011 11111110 1011011010 111111 11 010
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; et, les, un, leurs, tre, se are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word ils 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 pas, s are repeated).

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  • summary of Les Fièvres;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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