This is an analysis of the poem Il Est Certains Esprits... that begins with:
Il est certains esprits dont les sombres pensées
Sont d'un nuage épais toujours embarrassées ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010111010 1111100100 0101101101010 0111110010 1011010111101 10011111111 1111011100 111101010010 101011111 1111111101 1111101110 101011010110 101101110100 1111010010 111111100110 011011011110 1001011111 11111011110 11110111110 11110110100 1111011111 111101100111 10101111100 11010110110 1110011110 11101100110 100011101000 100100110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; ou, un, et, le are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, e, ne are repeated).
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