This is an analysis of the poem Un Conseil that begins with:
Dulmas, écoute enfin la raison qui t’éclaire,
Cesse enfin de nourrir un espoir téméraire;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaXX XXXXbbXXXXccddXXXbXaXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011011 1100101101 10111111100 100010111110 1110111001 111010010 100110110011 0101110101010 10001111001111 101110111 11101111010 1010011000 1000111111100 1110010101100 10011110 11010101110 1110111100 1010011100 11111110110 11101010 1111111010 101011100 110111011111 11010010110 1001001111 100111111111 1011101111011 110110110 11101110110 111111011110 1010101110110 11010111000 11000111010 1110011100010 110100101100 110111111110 1100111110 10111011111 10110110111 010110110011 101111101 11011011101 1111011010 11101101111 1111111110 11110010101 11101111111 1010110101111 101111010 100110011110 110111111010 1111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1207
- Average number of words per stanza: 232
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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; la, de, et, je, s, on, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, il are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ge, me, vers, s are repeated).
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- summary of Un Conseil;
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