This is an analysis of the poem La Solitude De St. Amant /La Solitude A Alcidon / that begins with:

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O! Solitude, my sweetest choice ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcbdefedd Xgegehdhdii Xdbdbbjbjjj XkakaghgXdd Xafbfjhjhhh Xhjhjhkhkbb Xldldjmjmkk Xbcbcjbjbcc Xcbcbininoo Xpdpdcecebb Xbhbhfqfqhh XeXebeaeaee Xiaiabebeaa XjejepqXqff Xejejjijiee XehchededXc Xqhqhqgqghh Xkrkrrkrkdd Xebebhqhqhh Xjbjbdgdghh EXXXXaXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,9,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11011101 10010001 01010101 11110101 11011001 01111101 00010001 11110101 01011111 11110101 1 01011101 101100101 11110111 11111111 10010101 01010101 0111101 01010011 11110101 11110101 1 11000101 110001101 01010101 01011101 11010001 11010101 10010101 01011101 11111001 11110111 1 11010001 11010011 101110101 01010101 11011101 100101001 01110101 0111010 10010101 01010101 1 01010101 1101111 11011111 10110101 11110101 10110100 11110101 11010111 11000111 01010111 1 11010101 01010101 11011101 10010101 110001101 11010111 101100101 11010111 11110010 00110100 1 10110101 01010101 11010111 11010001 11010011 11010101 11010111 0101011 110001001 01010101 1 11001001 01110101 01011111 01110101 01011101 11010101 10010101 11100111 11010101 11010101 1 01000101 11010001 11010101 10110101 10110111 01010101 01110111 00111011 11110111 01111101 1 110110100 10110101 01010100 00011101 01010101 0101011 01011101 01000101 10100101 01010001 1 10101101 01001111 11111101 110111001 01010101 01101101 10010101 0010101 11000101 11010111 1 01110101 01101101 11010101 11111101 11010101 01010111 110011101 1010100 10010111 11010101 1 01011101 11011101 11010101 10010111 10110101 11010101 00110111 01110011 10111111 11110001 1 10110101 01011101 11011001 010100111 01010100 10010011 00110110 11010101 10100101 01010101 1 11000101 00010101 11010001 10110101 11010101 10010101 01111101 0110111 110111001 10010101 1 01010101 1001100001 11010101 10111101 0101101 100100111 11110111 11100101 0101100 11011111 1 01110111 01010110 11110111 11000101 01010111 11110101 1111101 10011101 11111101 11110001 1 100110101 11110101 01010101 11110001 11010101 11011101 10100101 11010101 10101101 00110001 1 1100101 11010011 10100111 0010101 0110011 11110101 11010101 01011011 11110111 10110101 1 11110101 11000101 11110101 01010100 11110111 01110101 11110111 11011101 01011101 01010101 1111101 111101110001101 101100 11111110 0111111100 0110001 111110100 11110111 100110100 1110110 11001110 1111010 111100110 10111101 11010010 11001011 11100010 111101110 0110111 111101 101001100 10011100 1001110 11110101 111011000 11110100 111001100 111011 11010011 11111010 01110100 111100011 11101110 110101100 10111011 111011010 11110 1111101 1011010 1111010 10111100 10010110 11011110 11011001 110100100 01001101 1110101100 10101110 111011100 111101000 10111111 01001110 101100100 11101111 1010011 11000110 11111101 11011000 1101110 1011110 11101011 101110 1011111 1010010 11101101 1010100 1101111 1100110 11101010 111110 0111010 1111100 1011100 11011110 110101100 111001 101111100 11110111 11001110 101011100 10100110 11110110 111100100 11100110 11010100 111011110 1110100 11101010 111011100 1001110 11011110 1001101 1101000 10011100 1111010 10111000 110010 1011110 1011101 1111011010 1010011 1010110 110101110 01001011 01110111 11101010 10010101 0111110 0101110 1101011 11111010 11101100 111101101 01011010 011110 11110110 11101100 1001101 10110010 110111 110111010 10111010 11101110 1111111 11101100 11111010 111111 10100101 01111101 10100110 1110110110 1010110 111111110 11101110 111010 111101010 11111 10010100 11001010 111110 1101011 1111110 1110100 11110010 1111010 10111001 1011010 1101100 11011100 101101 10110010 111010110 101011010 10110111 1101011 11101101 11010010 110011 11101001 1011101 1111010 1110010 1110111 00111111 11001110 10011110 11111110 1101111 10111011 100111111 01111101 111001 111010 111111110 110111110 01101010 01101011 11110100 10100001 11111 1010110 11100110 110110 10011010 10111010 1110111 10111011 110110 0101101 1111101 11001110 1111110 11001110 11111001 10011101 1111111 111111101 1110110 10111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 441
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, to, as, de, le, les, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, , les, des, c'est are repeated.

    The author used the same words que, l, tantost 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 is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of La Solitude De St. Amant /La Solitude A Alcidon /;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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