This is an analysis of the poem Symbole that begins with:
Voici qu'à l'horizon coule un fleuve de sang.
De sa pourpre lugubre et splendide il inonde,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011101 01110110110 111101101 110111010001 101010011010 1110101110 1110110111 1100011110 1011001111 011110101 100001111 10101111001 111100111110 11101100111 1110011011 100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
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- summary of Symbole;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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