This is an analysis of the poem Les Fils De Prométhée that begins with:
Devant les splendeurs d’un autre-âge,
Les siècles longtemps prosternés...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXaXXXXXXX XXXbXXXXaX XcXXXXXXXX X XXXX XbXb XXXdXXXX XXdX XXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,1,4,4,8,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 1101010 10100110 111011 11001110 10011100 11110 1100101 10011001 01100 1011011 1110100 111111 10010110 11011 1110011 10010100 0101110 101110 11011100 1111010 01110100 1110101 11100100 1101011 11010100 11111110 111011 11110010 111111111 101101110 1110100 1110011 01111110 1100011 101010010 110100 010110 110110110 110100 101110100 11110 1111110 10111001 11101 111101 0111100 101111 110111 1011111 11101 0101101 11011 1110111 111101 1111100 0110111 11101011 1011011 10111110 1 01011001 10111010100 11110110110 1101110011 111001011 1101111011 110111110 10111011101 1001001001 11100010010 101010110111 11011011010 1111011101 1100110011 100011111001 1110001101 111000101110 1100111110 111101110111 1111111011 1110101011 1011011110 10101011001 11100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, de, les are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, tre are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Les Fils De Prométhée;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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