This is an analysis of the poem Billet Céleste that begins with:

Plein de spleen nostalgique et de rêves étranges,
Un soir je m'en allai chez la Sainte adorée,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXaX bXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110010110 111111011101 11110111010 1110110110 1111111101 11101111010 01111011101 10110010110 1110111100 110101011 11101111 1110011100010 10110010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word tranges at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Billet Céleste;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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