This is an analysis of the poem La Légende De Phryné that begins with:
Or donc Phryné, dont la beauté
Tenait du sortilège,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX cXXd XXaX XXaX XXdX XXXX eXeX dbXd XXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 10010 11001110 10110 101100 10100 1110110 11010 110110 11010 11011110 110010 10110100 111011 1110100 10101 1111110 10111 011111 111011 11110100 1010 1111110 10011 11110000 0110100 111000 1110 11101110 11111 1100110 11111 11111111 1110 111111101 111111 1101111 11111 11000110 111011 11111001 1110 11011001 1010 11111 1111100 11100111 1111000 111111110 11100 10100110 11110 1111010 01100 11011100 11101100 111100111 111111 1110101 110111 1111011 11111 11110110 11101 1101101 1111100 111011111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; un, l, de, vous are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Légende De Phryné;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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