This is an analysis of the poem Je Ne Découvre Ici Les Mystères Sacrés that begins with:

Je ne découvre ici les mystères sacrés
Des saints prêtres romains, je ne veux rien écrire...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXX 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: 11111101101 111101111111 11110110010 1111011110110 111011111101 111011010111 11111111111011 111010111011 1110011011 111010011 111111011100 111111100110 111111010111110 111111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; je, que are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Je Ne Découvre Ici Les Mystères Sacrés;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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