This is an analysis of the poem Lucifers that begins with:
Les étoiles des lys ont éclairé la plaine...
Les pétales de l'astre ont éclos dans la nuit ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX bXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111 1100111111 010100111011 10100111111 11011111110 1111111110 1111111010 0111011 11011110111 11011110110 111011111101 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la, les, des, se, sont are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, et are repeated.
The author used the same word les at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lucifers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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