This is an analysis of the poem Poèmes Divers that begins with:

Les villes sont pleines d'amour et de douleur
Deux plantes dont la mort est la commune fleur...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXXa XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX cXXX dXXX XXXdXXXXXcXc eXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX dXXe XceXXXXXdXXdXXXXddXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,12,4,12,4,20,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101010 110111011101 110111101110 110001001110 1101110110 10101110111 101011111100 11011111111 1110011111 110100111111 110111011011 1101111101 110110111101 11110111011 101111101 01111001011 10110110011 11111111101 11111010111 111111010110 11010111000 1101011101 111101101100 11010010111 111011011110 11000111010 101100110101 10110111111 110111101100 111011110111 100011111010 110010111000 1111111011110 11101010110 011000011001 110100111110 111111111000 110111100 1001000111111 111110110110 11111101110 111001111101 111100111010 11101010111 1111 1101011 11111 10110 101 1011101010100 11110 11011111101 1010 1111 11 110111 01110 111010 1101110 11011 1110111010 1110110 100111 1111010 101110 11 1110 10011110 111 11 101011 11101 11 01 1101001100 110100101101 101101110111 1110100101 1011011111011 1101111111111 111110110 111110101101 10101110110 11101 111100 110101 1111110 1111001101 100111111100 1111111111110 111001110110 11100111010 100111110010 1101001010 11111110100 1111111101111 1111111111110 110111011100111 11110110101 010010110100 10011010110 100101101011 1110011111 1110011101110 01110011110 111011000 11111011111 101110111110 1101111000 1010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; les, le, de, des, vies, la, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, des, la, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word les at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, tre, es are repeated).

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  • summary of Poèmes Divers;
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