This is an analysis of the poem Le Désir that begins with:
Celuy n'est pas heureux qui n'a ce qu'il desire,
Mais bien-heureux celuy qui ne desire pas...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXaX bXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011110010 1110101110101 110111101010 1010001101101 1000110110110 111101111001 1011011001 11011011010 00111011111 01011110111 00110011011 10101011011 11010110100 010100110100 11110111100 1011111111100 1100110011 1000111001110 1011111010100 101111111011 111111110010 01110100110 101011101110 1001111010010 11010100100 1010110100101 100110011110 11011111010 11100100010 100011100111 10011010110 11011010011 1000111111100 11101111100 100100110100 01110111110 1001111011110 1101111100 11001101111 11011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, son, d'un, de, le are repeated.
The author used the same word l'un at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Le Désir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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