This is an analysis of the poem L'Inondation De 1910 that begins with:

J’avais dans la banlieue
Mon toit officiel....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXaX XXXX bXXX XXXX bXXc XXXd XbXX XXXX XbXX deXX XXXX fXfc XXXe XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 11100 1110111 11101 11110 101110 110011 110110 101101 101110 101111 11100 1100110 101100 1001100 11111 111010 100010 110111 01010 11111 110010 111010 111010 1110100 101111 01110000 011010 11011 11101 11110 101111 111010 1111 111111 1111110 111010 11011 1111011 01011 11110 01011 100110 10110 10100 111110 1111 11110 101001 111010 110111 111101 1111 1111110 011010 11011 100100 11110 1111111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of L'Inondation De 1910;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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