This is an analysis of the poem La Beauté that begins with:
Splendeur excessive, implacable,
Ô beauté, que tu me fais mal !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXX XXbXX XXXXb XXXXX aXXaX bXXXc XXXcX aXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100100 111111 11010000 11010010 110110 101010 1111111010 11111001 1101101 11011100 1111110 1101110 110110 1101101 1011011 1110101 10011100 11011010 01001010 1001100 111011010 110101010 111110 101111110 110111011 11101 101101 1101100 111111 1100001 1111110 1111101 0101011110 111111 11011101 111111 1111100 10101000 1101101 1111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tu is repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines les, e are repeated).
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- summary of La Beauté;
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