This is an analysis of the poem Décor that begins with:

Dans les grottes sans fin brillent les Stalactites.
Du cyprès gigantesque aux fleurs les plus petites,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXbXbXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111011000 01100111111 11101011010 1011010100 1101001100 1011101100 1100111100 10110010110 01110101110 111101110010 100110011110 100101111000 1111010110 11110110100 1010001100 11001101000 1111011000 01111100110 11011010101 100010111000 10011011001 1000101001100 10010110110 100111001 1001100010 111110100 11001110011 1010101100 0100111111 11011100111 1011111110 110100011100 1011010010 110001111110 11001010101 11111010110 11101111110 111110011110 1110001101101 1111011010 111110011 1100111100 10101110101 1111001110100 11111111110 1010111111100 111101101100 01010110100 101110110 101010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2287
  • Average number of words per stanza: 402
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • 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; les, de, et are repeated.

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  • summary of Décor;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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