This is an analysis of the poem Les Stalactites that begins with:
J'aime les grottes où la torche
Ensanglante une épaisse nuit,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 100111 1110111 1110011 1100011 101110 110011 110011 1111011 111001 11011110 1001110 11111100 11010010 10110110 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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- summary of Les Stalactites;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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