This is an analysis of the poem La Sybille that begins with:
Marchons, le ciel s’abaisse, et le jour pâlissant
N’est plus à son midi qu’un faible crépuscule;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 154,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010110 111101110 011110110011 10111101110 110111011 1011111001 10011011100 110011110 1111011011 101100100110 11111100010 11110111010 011100111110 11011110011 1100111110 110100110110 10111110011 111001110 1011011111 010110110110 1111011111 1101001100100 111110110100 1001011011 111110110100 0101001010 11101111111 101111110110 101001110 10101010110 110010110110 1101010110 01101111011 11111110110 1111010111 10100010011 110111100110 11111011100 1111111101 1101111101100 11001011110 110011011110 111111110100 10010011110 11111011110 11010110100 11010101100 111011001 110111100010 11100101010011 10111111001100 111001110 11011110111 1101110010 11110011001 1010111010 110111100110 11010110011 11011111011 11011010111 1010011111 111010101110 10101101110110 011110101110 10011101011 1000110110100 1110111110110 11101101010 101111100110 11001011010 1101110110 1101110110 11011101010 11101011001 101011101101 1101111110 110110111100 100111110110 111111110111 100110110100 11111 1111101010 01111111110 1011110 1110111 111001000 11101111110 1110100 111010011110 0111100101 1101100101 1111101110 1011100111 010011100101 00111101011 1101100 10111101111 101110100110 1110101011111 10110010011 111111100110 1110111010100 10001110 110010 10110111110 10011111111 11011011110 111010111 110111111 111111110110 11011011 11111010 01111111110 1011110 1110111 11011110 10101001011 11101011101 11101010100 011110010110 10111011100 110010100111 11101110110 111000100 1011111011 11100111100 101110110 0100100 11011111111 10011111101 1111011100 10110010100 10110010111 1111110110 110011011100 01010001110 11101010110 111111011110 10100101011 011111 011011001111 10111 110100 10011011101100 1010110 11111010 01111111110 1011010 1110111 1011010100 10100111110 1111011111 111011100110 1111110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 7392
- Average number of words per stanza: 1286
- Amount of lines: 154
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; le, d, les, ces, la, s, leurs, et, son, de, qui, ses, r are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ces, il are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ne is repeated).
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- summary of La Sybille;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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