This is an analysis of the poem Lacenaire Poëte that begins with:

Quand il faisait des vers dans sa dernière veille,
Crédule aux mille voix qui répétaient : Merveille !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXbXcXXXXXXXXXXXadXbeXXaXXXXXXXXcX XXXXXXXXXXXfXXXXXX XXddXXXdeXaaXXXXXXXXXXbXaXXXXg XXXXXXffXXXXhXXXXXXX XXXXhXXXXgXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,18,30,20,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111101 11111110 1011110111110 1101011110 101011101101 11110111 10110110011 1110011011 100111011010 10011101011100 110011100111 111101111 110001011011 100101111011 111100110110 101010111100 010000101 111010111 111011010100 1101101111110 1111010110 1001110111 11010111111 111110111011 100110010010 110110110100 0110001101 01110011010 111100010100 111101101 01111111001 0101111001 1111101010111 11010111110011 1000101011 1111100110 1011011111 11110111001 11111111110 110111111 110110110100 1001101100100 11111100110 111010011 1101001110 110100101010 1011111110 10100111111 011101001100 110011110110 01110111110 1101011101 111011111 1001111111 11101111110 11110011101 1000111111 10111011110 11011010010 10110111110 11010110110 110010100011 011010110110 11011010100 1111010111 01011011001 111110101011 11001100100 11110111101 1111101101 111100101100 11001011100 1101110100 1011101110 11100110110 1101110111 11001111110 1111011010 1011011101 11110101010 1101010011 11001110100 1111110110011 10011101010 111110101100 10101011010 11001011101 1100110110 111110101011 1110101111 111111101110 111101110 1011110110 1110111100 01011010101 1011011010 1111101010111 11010010101 110011111 11101110010 111101111111 1100110011 101001101 111010010110 11011011111 0101101111111 1111011010100 1011111110 1011101110 10101011111 10111011111 10110100011 11101111011 11010011001 10101111111 1011011010 110101101 110110111111 1111110001 1010111110 101011100011 10110111100 111100101110 10011011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 221
  • Amount of lines: 124
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, les, est, un, la, et, le, ne, d, au are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, qu, que, chaque are repeated.

    The author used the same word et 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 es, nie, re, tre, s, dit are repeated).

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  • summary of Lacenaire Poëte;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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