This is an analysis of the poem La Dévastation Du Musée that begins with:

La sainte vérité qui m’échauffe et m’inspire
Écarte et foule aux pieds les voiles imposteurs :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXbXXXXXcXXXcdXdXXXXddXXXXXXXXXXXXebXXXXXXXXXffXeXXXXXXXXaXaXXXXXXXXXbXXcXghXXXXhXXXXbXeXXXXgXXXXbXXXXXXXXbaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 114,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 1111111100 1101110110 11111011 10110001100 11111010011100 11101011011 11010110 101101011100 101011100 010111110 11111101110 11010100111 11000100 111001010100 1001011110100 110100011 101111110110 101110111100 111001110 1101000 1011101111100 11100101110 111101110111 1101110 111111110111 11001100 010111001 111011 10111100 1011010 11111 1001110 11111011 111110011 11101011110110 10011100 0101011010 1110111111 10111011 111110111110 11110110010 10110110110 111110110 0111001110 110110010110 0111010010 0111101 10110011010 110110110110 1001011110 10110011110 101101111 01001001010 10110010111 111101110 0110111 11111 110100 1110101 1101110 101111101 11011111 111111010 100111 1101011010100 110110111010 1101011011 110101111000 1101110 11110011100 1111100011110 11010111110 11110100101 110011100010 111101001110 1010101 10111111100 10010111110 11101010 111100 011010110 111101111000 101011110 1111001101100 1111111110 1111011111111 1111011011 011111111000110 101010111 10110 110011111011 101111100 11011110110 110110110110 10111011110 1110011011 11100111001 111100101110 11100001010 11100110111 1111010001 101000100100 111110101110 10101101100 111110110100 1011010 111101000100 100011111010 101110100 11100111111 10011011001 010101110111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4840
  • Average number of words per stanza: 897
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; d, adieu, et, de, je, nos are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words non, adieu, trois, il are repeated.

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  • summary of La Dévastation Du Musée;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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