This is an analysis of the poem L'Une D'Elles that begins with:
Les grands appartements qu'elle habite l'hiver
Sont tièdes. Aux plafonds, légers comme l'éther,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX aaX bXX XXX XXX XXc bXX XXX XXc bbX XaX XXX aaX XXX XXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000101010 11110111 101000100 111011111100 11110011110 11101100 1101011011 111011111 110111 11110111001 10111111010 0101101 1101010110 11010111001 111110 11101011110 111001010100 111101001 11011111111 01010011010 110111 110110101010 1111011100 11010110 1111010110 10011101100 110111 11111100110 101010111010 1100011 10111111101 111011010 11110111 10110110110 10110111100 111111100 11110111111 11111110010 111111010 10100111011 101010111011 101010110 11110111001 11110011111 11111010 1010111000 1111111110 011110110 101011101110 111010100011 11111101 111101101100 1111011111 0110011 11110011110 110100111101 1100100 110011110011 11110111110 1110111 1011110010 11111011110 11110010 11110100101 1000111110 101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; les, des, la, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, et are repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words e, re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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