This is an analysis of the poem Les Villes that begins with:
Oh ! ces villes, par l'or putride envenimées !
Clameurs de pierre et vols et gestes de fumées,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXc d XXbXeXbX adXXXXXd XXXXX XafXXXXXXX XXXXXaXXX XeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX gXXXXXX XXXX XgXaXXXXXXXX bXXXXXeXXXXXfXXaXXXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,8,5,10,9,18,7,4,12,23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101000 100011111001 11110110010 11011100111 1101101110100 110100 11011110 111001110001 101101111011 101110110011 101011100111 11100100011 11011110111 10100101011111 1110110111 110111110 111100111100 1111111011 11101101110 010110010110 110010101100 1101010100 01111011100110 1111010110 111111100001 11110011 11010110 111110 111000111 10011110101 101000101100 101011001010 1100111110 111010110 011011 111110110 101011001100 1110101100100 1111111011110 010011111 1011101110001 1001111011100 1111011101000 11001110010 11111010010 10110110101 1110010110 010110010110 010100111000 111111 1111101111 11101110 10111110 11110110 0110011010 101111111 11011011110 1110100 11111101110 100111011 1011111111110 1110111101100 11000111011 10111101 10111001111010 1110010 111010 110101111 11100010111 1101011101 1101010 11011110100 11011111110 1111101111 10011111101 010010100110 1101010111010 1011001110111 111110111001 1010011111001 101100111000 11111010111 1001001101100 1011011101001 011011101 110110111010 111101011010 110111111100 111101100110 1101101110 111110111011 111011000110 1111111101100 11100110101 1011101010 110010111 11100110110111 1100100111110 0101111111 10110011101 1010101101110 11001111110 10010110101011 101101111000 110101000 01010011011 101110111100 110101010100 1111011011010 111010111010 11101100110 10111101011 11011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 113
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; et, leur, leurs, vous, le, les, en, de, faut, s'il, des, il, la, est, aucun are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, s'il are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, me, e, te are repeated).
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- summary of Les Villes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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