This is an analysis of the poem Une Statue (4) that begins with:
Un bloc de marbre où son nom luit sur une plaque.
Ventre riche, mâchoire ardente et menton lourd ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XaXX XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111111 1011101101 1110101111 111111110100 01001000011 1101111011 10111101110 11101111101 1110011110100 11011011111 1101101100100 110110100100 111110111 110110111000 111111110 1000101011 11110111111 1101101100 111111001110 110010111011 1101111010 1010010111010111 110100011111 111010101011 111010011110 11100100011 11011111000 1100011111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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, il, la, qu'il are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lourd, me are repeated).
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- summary of Une Statue (4);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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