This is an analysis of the poem Sainte Cécile that begins with:

La belle Sainte au fond des cieux
Mène l'orchestre archangélique,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 110100 1110100 1110111 1011110 101111 1111111 110100 101100 1111110 1111010 1100100 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; la is repeated.

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  • summary of Sainte Cécile;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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