This is an analysis of the poem Un Quart D'Heure De Dévotion that begins with:

Vous demandez, amis, comment s’est échappée
De ma plume profane une sainte épopée ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcXXdbXXXXeffXXbgXX XXgg XXXXXXXXXXeeXXXXXgaXXXXXXXXXXXXd XXXbXdXX XdXXXXXXXXXXXbXXeXXh gXXffXXXcXXhgX gbXXXXXXXXcX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXgXX XXgXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,20,4,32,8,20,14,12,22,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101011 01101111 10111111011 11111001101 111111101 10101101101 1101111101 11111011100 111001111 110100110001 11111101101 110011100011 010110011100 111010111010 11100011010 1101111101 1110111001 100110101111 100110111110 01100011101 100011101 1011110011 10111011010 10111011110 111011111001111 1011111011 1010110100011 1100101111111 100110111000 101101100100 1101111101 1101110111 110110011011 10110111110 1011011100 11011011 11111111011 100111101 10010110101 011110111011 101010100011 11011111110 11011111011 11110110100 1111111111110 1001111100010 1011001010 101110101 110010011100 110011110 1101101111 10101100100 101001111001 100101101101 10010110110 1001011101 01101011110 11010111010 1010110110 1100101110111 1110110111 111100101011 11011110111 11010110001 011010101010 11011101111011 1010110111110 110111010 1001101111 1110111101101 111111111 1001011111111 1111010111100 11011011000 111110110 100111011 10111110 010010100110 111110011010 11100111110 111010100110 1101100011 1111001111 1010101011 11101110100 111110101110 111101111001 11000110111111 11111100110110 1111111000 1111101011010 1110100110 11011010101 11111011110 10101111 1100111111 1011011001 1001011010 1111001110 1011010111 111011101 11001110 11011111010 10111111011 10010111011 11010111010 111101101 11001111011 111110111001010 1011011111 11110110011 11110111110 111110111011 1011101101 11110111011 11101111110 111011100 101011110100 1111100100 1101111010 01101111010 1001101110 110111101100 1010111110 1101011010 1101110010010 11100111010 1110111111 100111101110 10111110111 11100110001 010100100100 101011110100 110111111 11111010111 0110101110 11110111100 101101111 1110111010 101011101 111011110 1001111111011 101011111110 1111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
  • Average number of words per stanza: 129
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • 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, l, et, des, le, la, un, tes, les, qui, au are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, combien, et are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, me, pas, ur, tes, tre, lus, re, cieux are repeated).

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  • summary of Un Quart D'Heure De Dévotion;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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