This is an analysis of the poem Salvator Rosa that begins with:

Qu'avais-tu dans l'esprit, maître à la brosse ardente,
Pour que sous ton pinceau la nature en fureur...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXa 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: 100111011110 111110110110 1101111010 11110011010 10101110100 111011101010 1110101101100 10110110110 111011010 11011110110 1111001011 1110111010 100110111010 10011111101 1111101110101 1101101110 111101101110 11111111111 11110111110 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • 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; les is repeated.

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  • summary of Salvator Rosa;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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