This is an analysis of the poem Sur Les Prophéties that begins with:

J'ai connu quelques prophétesses
Madame Salmajour avait appris en Océanie à tirer les cartes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXaXXXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100 10100101011010110 111101011110001000 111001000 11101101 11110100111111010 11000101011111111 0110010 11010011101 111 111011011111110 11011010110100 1101100111111010100011 11101101011010 1011101111 10111101010 11001111111111011110 1111101111 1111111111101111001 10101111110 111010101111 1011010010110010 1100010 1010111011111111 01110011010011 1101101001110 111101011110 1111111100 11001111100110 1100110 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 274
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qu'elle, je, et, dans, ni are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ni is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Sur Les Prophéties;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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