This is an analysis of the poem La « Devise » Et La « Voix Du Poète » that begins with:

Cher Maître, un dernier mot : ma muse sera brève.
Depuis quatre-vingt-neuf, la faible Humanité...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11110111101 1011111100 111101011 11100111110 10011110111 1101011100 010101100001 111111110 11100111101 11111110101 11010101000 10101011110 11001110 10111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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.

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  • summary of La « Devise » Et La « Voix Du Poète »;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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