This is an analysis of the poem Le... Poème Secret that begins with:

Voilà de quoi est fait le chant symphonique de l'amour qui bruit dans la conque de Vénus
Il y a le chant de l'amour de jadis...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011011000101111101 11001010010 0111010110100 1110110010111 110011100101110111011101 1101011011100101011011001111110110 1110111110 1101111011101000 01011 010110001111110100010010110 1100111111111 101100110110001101011100 1100111001100100 011001100 111111 101001010 1110110 1010101011101110101101001 11001011001 1101011001101 11001101011011111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1353
  • Average number of words per stanza: 251
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, le, des, les, s, la, il are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, le, il are repeated.

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  • summary of Le... Poème Secret;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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