This is an analysis of the poem Les Cariatides that begins with:
C'est un palais du dieu, tout rempli de sa gloire.
Cariatides soeurs, des figures d'ivoire...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XbX bXX XcX XXc XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX aXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110011 1000111001 10010011011 1101110010 11001101101 11110111100 1011101101111 11101101101000 110010101110 1110010111000 11010110110 1101111001110 11001001110 100001111010 1101111101011 11100111110 11001001100 1111001111 1010010101100 1011110101110 110101111 1111101100111 111001110101 1110100110010 11111010100 1101111011010 11101110111 11110111110 1011100110 1001111010 10100101010 11010101111 10111011111 111011011010 111111111010 111101010 111111101110 101101100 101111110 11111101110 101110100 101111111110 10110111011 11010111001 101101110 011110110011 11011111011 111011101000 10101101110011 1011011000
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; le, les, jusqu', toi are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vous, les, tous, depuis, jusqu' are repeated.
The author used the same word j'ai at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Les Cariatides;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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