This is an analysis of the poem La Prière D'Adam that begins with:
Songe horrible ! - la foule innombrable des âmes
M'entourait. Immobile et muet, devant nous,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001110011 10001011101 111111110110 1101111110 1010000111 11110110111 10011110011 10000101100 1101111001 1001100111 10001110111 110111011110 1111010110 111101111 1110011110 111111011010111 110100110011110 11111010111 1001110111011 101010111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, et, son, les, ' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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 Prière D'Adam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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