This is an analysis of the poem Ode Tirée Du Cantique D'Ézéchias that begins with:

J'ai vu mes tristes journées
Décliner vers leur penchant ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXX XXXXXXXXXb cbcXXXdXXX XXXXXXXXdX XXXXXXaXXX XXdXXXXXXd XXXXXXbXXX bXbXaXXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 101110 1100110 1110110 111011 1010100 111111 111110 11101101 01110 11111 111111 111011 1110110 11001111 11011 011110 1111 101110 100111 1110101 010111 0101110 1110010 101110 011010 1110111 111110 1111100 1110010 10011100 11101110 1111010 101010 1110111 111111 1000110 1110010 011111 01010011 1101111 111110 1001110 11101 1101110 01010 1100111 110110 1111011 111001 1011111 1011110 11110111 1111011 101111 111100 11111 1110011 11101 1110001 111011 0110010 111111 1110011 111110 111011 1101100 111011 1110110 0111000 1110110 11110 100011 1101 10101110 1011100 110111 1110110 1101010 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; et, la, pour are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve, e, es are repeated).

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  • summary of Ode Tirée Du Cantique D'Ézéchias;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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