Poem Analysis of Leïla by Theodore de Banville for close reading

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

Il semble qu'aux sultans Dieu même
Pour femmes donne ses houris....

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXXX XbXX XXXc XXXX XdXX XdXX eXXX XcXX XXeb XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110101111 1101110 1111111 1111111 11001001 11001011 11110111 11101111 01011110 11011000 11101110 111010 1011101 11011010 111000111 1110110 01010111 11111110 11111011 111011111 1011110 1111010 1111101 10001011 10101101 110011 1110111 1111111 11011011 111101 111101 1111110 110111010 11100110 11111110 11111111 1101011 101011001 111111 11011010 111101100 11110100 11000110 10110010 11110111 11111110 11011100 110111 10011001 11011110 11001011 1101110 11101111 110101 11110110 1111111
Amount of stanzas: 14
Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 56
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
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, leurs, de are repeated.
The author used the same word elles at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Leïla by Theodore de Banville: poem analysis

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