This is an analysis of the poem Bellérophon that begins with:
La Chimère a brisé son front contre l'Azur ;
Elle fouettait les cieux de ses ailes meurtries...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110111110 1101101110 101011100101 010010111110 1011111110 11101110111 10111111010 11101011 111110110011 110111110 1011100101 11010110110 110010111100 010111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; le is repeated.
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- summary of Bellérophon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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