This is an analysis of the poem La Vierge De Cire that begins with:
Sous la calme splendeur de son front ingénu
Quelle pensée habile ou quel rêve sommeille ?...
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: 1111001110 111011110 11011111110 101101100 01100111111 11110110110 11010111110 101111111100 10110001101 1111101101 10010111100 11110110110 1101011010 111000101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; de, la are repeated.
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- summary of La Vierge De Cire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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