This is an analysis of the poem Insatiabilité that begins with:

Allons, debout ! belle endormie,
Misère, donne moi la main,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX aXXX bXXb XXXX XXXb cXXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110 11111 11001010 111111 111111100 1111100 011111010 1111011 10101111 01110100 11111110 111111011 1011101 101010 1111111 10111001 101111 1111111111 11010100 11111 1101111 1101001 1111100 110111 11111111 111101 1111100 11101001 111111000 01111110 11111110 111010 101111 0111011 1011101 111011100 1011110 1111110 1111100 111101111 01101110 10011110 1100110 110111110 11110111 11100110 1111011 111111 11111110 11101111 10110101 1111101 10011110 111101011 101010 1010010 1111111 1101110 111101110 1011110 11011011 11111110 10011011 01011111 11011110 01110110 11010111 0111110 11110101 01010100 111111111 110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tu, t, il, te, et, de, or, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tant is repeated.

    The author used the same words tu, rappelle, et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Insatiabilité;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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