This is an analysis of the poem Les Usines that begins with:
Se regardant avec les yeux cassés de leurs fenêtres
Et se mirant dans l'eau de poix et de salpêtre...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXXX aXXXXXXXaX XXXaXbXXX XXXXXbX XXXXXbXXXbbXXXXXXXXX XbXXbXXXXX XaaXaaXXX XXcXXXX XXXXcXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,4,5,10,9,7,20,10,9,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101110110 111101101101 10111011100 1101111101 1101101 111110110 101000101100 1100101100010 11111011 1001110 111110011000 011010000 1100 1110001111100 11110 100111 11111100 11101011111 111011100100 111111110 0111010 11111 110011011 10101010 1011101 1110 1111110 1110111100 1010110000100 111110 11101010110 11110101010 1101101 111110110 11101101000 111110011 101010 10111110100 10111110 11001001 11111100100 10101111001 110110111100 1101010110 01101000 111111100 11111000110 110111101 11111001110 01101010 10111011110 1111110 110011000 100111110 111010110 101011101 110111100 11011011 11101101 11001100 101 100001100 110100 10100 10001000 11001101 1101011100 1011010 111101001 10011111 1111011100 11011010 1111111010 101110100 11011110 10101110 1011100 11011110 1110101010 1101001010 1011111111 11101001000 111011111011 111011101101 1000011010 11100110110 1010011101100 110101100 110100011 1101111001 111110 1011001001 1110 11001111100 11 01101 10110110 1110101110 1111011011 1111111110 11010011011 11101110 111110110010 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; de, et, les, m, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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- summary of Les Usines;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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