This is an analysis of the poem L'Anneau Du Diable that begins with:

Au temps des géants et des fées,
Des sorcières, des enchanteurs...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaXXbXXXXXXccdXXdeXXbXXXXXXX fdfdXeXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXeXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,29,26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 11001100 11100100 1011010 111011000 1110101 11111011 010110101 110011110 11101111110 10101110 101111111100 1010100100 0111101101100 10111100 10101010 1100111110 1101010111 1111011101 1111011 111110 110111110 1111011011 1101111 110111110 101110111 1110100 11101110 11111101 1111110 11111010 111110011 111110 1011010 0011011010 11110010010 11111111101 1101110110 11101110 1011111101 0101110 1011110 11101101 110011 111010101 011111010 011001111 110010111 1111111000 1010111101 010110101 1100101010 110111110 111111110010 101101010 111110111 1110110101 11101010 11101111 111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 718
  • Average number of words per stanza: 146
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, de, le, e, l, il are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of L'Anneau Du Diable;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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