This is an analysis of the poem Les Malades that begins with:
Pâles, nerveux et seuls, les tragiques malades
Vivent avec leurs maux. Ils regardent le soir...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXXX XCXC XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XCXC XXXb XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111100100 101011110001 111111110110 111111101 111111110 11101011111 110011111011 0110101010101 11111001000 10011101011 111111111000 111111111111 11011001010 011111010 1101011111 110111111110 111100011110 11101111011 10110110110 110011110110 1101111111110 111110111010 1100111100110 111100110001 11111010111 11111101111 1101111111010 1111001111111 101111001000 10011101011 111111111000 111111111111 110011111110 111001101110 11111111001 1111010101011 10011111010 01101011111 1010101111 1011111110 1011111100100 100111110011 111111110 10110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, ses, le, ', ont, ils, leur, leurs, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ', et are repeated.
The author used the same words ', et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Les Malades;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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