This is an analysis of the poem La Chimère that begins with:
La Chimère indomptable aux yeux profonds et bleus,
Abîmes rayonnants dans un visage d'homme, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX 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: 11100111011 1010011101 1100101101010 111111111 1101111111010 100101111110 10110011101 111011101110 111011111010 011110100110 11101110110 01011110110 111001011110 101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, de, la are repeated.
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- summary of La Chimère;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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