This is an analysis of the poem Le Musicien De Saint-Merry that begins with:

J'ai enfin le droit de saluer des êtres que je ne connais pas
Ils passent devant moi et s'accumulent au loin...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXXXXXXXcXbabdceXbXdXXXXXXfXXedXeXXXdfXXaXXXXXXXagXbXXeehhXXXgXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXhbXfbXeXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 102,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010101111111101 1101011100011 101111111100 11101111101 11111111111010 11110110000111110111110 11101101010110 0101011 101111100010 11001010110 111111111100 100101011110010 1111101001111 11101 11011111010011 11011011110 11111111101 110110101010 11100101 1111100110111010 0100100111101 1111110111001 1110111 100101101 11001111010110110 111010111110 110110 1101111000111 11101010100 1110100111 11101000 110 111110011110 110 11011001011100 11111 10100011011010 10 1101111111100101 111110 11110001 11110 100111011001100 111110111111 11101101101011 11110011101 10111111111101000 110101011111 1100 111001110010000 111001110000110 11010010011 1101110011110101 11010110110 01110111111 10111011011100 1010 111001110110 11100010010 101101111110 1110100110 1010 11010111011 1101110000 11111011 10010100 11011111110 111011011110 11111111100 1011100110 1111110111010110 0110100110 1100100 10010110101101 10100 11010 11100101 11101011000100 111000100 11011010100 11001001110100 11011010011 101011011001010 1100110011 11001100 11000111111 1111011101110110 1011111110110 11011110 1111010 1001 11011011 1010 1110011000110 11110100 111100100 11110011100 11 10001100110 11 111011101 1010011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 791
  • Amount of lines: 102
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; que, je, de, le, chante, sans, la, et, quand, toi, toutes are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, il, qui, quand, et are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines astres is repeated).

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  • summary of Le Musicien De Saint-Merry;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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