This is an analysis of the poem Les Contes that begins with:
Orphelin, sous un ciel avare,
Radcliffe m’a donné son lait ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXbXXXXX XcXXXXXXXXXX dXdXXeXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXbXXXXXceX XXXeaXXXaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011110 101111 1011001 111010110 10011100 1111010 1101 110 11110 1110 11010111 11100110 11111110 11100010 11011011 1011110 1011011 11001011 1110 1111 111 1110 111111011 10101010 1101111 111110 111111 1101101 110111111 11100111 1010 1110 1101 1111 110111 10101010 10110 1011111 1101100 1111101 1100111 11110110 1101 0110 111 1011 1001011 11011010 11011100 11110110 11001110 111110 01111100 1111111 101 110 11 1101 1101101 11011010 111001100 1011110 011101100 10010111 11010101 10101111 1110 111 1111 1110 10111011 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, de, nos are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jusqu is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines clore is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word toujours at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Les Contes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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