This is an analysis of the poem Affinités Secrètes that begins with:
Dans le fronton d'un temple antique,
Deux blocs de marbre ont, trois mille ans,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXaX XbXb XXXX XXXX Xaaa XXXX aXXX XXXX XcXc XcXc XXXX XXXX XXXX dXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011001 11011111 10110110 100111 11111110 1011101 1101110 111111100 111010 10111011 01010110 010111011 11100010 1101111 1111010 11011111 111010 111101111 111011 111111101 11110110 11101010 10111000 1110111 10101000 11011101 11101110 111011110 110011100 11011010 1110111110 1111010 01101100 110010 1111100 101110001 1010110 1101110 101110 110111 11110110 10101111 1101010 10101111 110111010 1111101 1110010 111011011 1010111 0110010 1111110 1110111100 1111011 1110110 111011 0111110 0101111 1001100 1101 11001010 1101111110 111101100 11110010 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; se, les, et, quel are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, les, le, quel are repeated.
The author used the same word dans at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Affinités Secrètes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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