This is an analysis of the poem Les Idées that begins with:
Sur la Ville, dont les désirs flamboient,
Règnent, sans qu'on les voie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XX XXX aXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXX XXXXcXdbeXXXXaX aXaXdXXdXXXXfXXX dXXcXXbXcXXXbe fXXXXXXXXXXXXb XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,7,24,15,16,14,14,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 111011 1100110 11110110100 1110111110 101010101010 1010100110 10100 11101111111 101111110 1101001010 11011110 1111011010 1101000 10111110110 101111011110 01101111110 110111011011 1011001101000 10011111100 11101111110 1111111011 1010101101 111010001011 11010110111 1101101110100 111011110100 100111111011 11001101100 101011111000 1101010100011 1010110101 111011111010 11111101011 111111 11101111 1111110010 1001101110 1001110 11001110101 110111011 1111101110 1010111010 10111110100 11111101011 1111111110010 11010011111 10110111101 11011110100 11010110011 010100111001 111111 111001110011 10110101011 11111111110 111010101 1111101101 111 111 1111010 10010110110 1101101 01101111 1100 0110011 1111111010 111101011110 11110111000 1101011101110 111110111100 1111111 101111110 1110110010 110110110100 111101111 1010111001100 1011111100111 1110111110 011011001 111111110 11101100100 111101100100 111111111 11011110101 110101110100 1111011110100 1111011101111 1011101010 11110010 110111010 111110001 11001111011000 10111011101 1111010110 110111101110 1101101110 1011010011110 11111111001 11111110 111011 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; les, des, et, la, dans, chaque, de, se are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elle, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, e are repeated).
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