This is an analysis of the poem La Plainte De Sapho that begins with:
Celui qui passait triomphant
Debout dans sa grâce farouche,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX X XXXXaXaX X XXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXX b cXXXXXXX b XXcXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 1011110 11011010 10110011 1011110 10001001 110110 1111100 1 1101011 11111111 1101110 011010 10110111 111101 111111101 100111 1 1011010 11011011 11110 1011010 11111100 0111011 1011110 10101100 1 1111111 1111111 10101 111010 11110110 111110 1111110 111111111 1 1111101001 11100110 11110100 11100011 1101010 1111101 11001110 111111 1 1110100 101001 111110010 010111 11100100 10111011 110110110 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The author used the same word celui at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Plainte De Sapho;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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