This is an analysis of the poem Narcissus that begins with:
Ni les douces langueurs des flùtes et des lyres,
Ni les parfums mourants des vagues encensoirs...
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: 111010111110 110110110100 1101010111 1111111110100 1110100011110 11111101010 1001110110 10011111111 111111101 1110100110010 110111110 110010110011 11011110 01011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; ni, des, les, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ni is repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bres is repeated).
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