This is an analysis of the poem La Spirale Sans Fin Dans Le Vide S'Enfonce that begins with:

La spirale sans fin dans le vide s'enfonce ;
Tout autour, n'attendant qu'une fausse réponse...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXaXXa XaXXXX XXXbXX XXXXXX XXbXXX bXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110110 1101001011 111001 11110011000 111110111010 101110 1101011111 11101110010 11101 110111011010 11010100010 1011 110110111110 1100110010110 10100 1101110111 11010010111 1010 11010111110 1001010110 10110 11000101110 11110110110 11010 101110111010 1110111011 111110 11110111111 1011111001 10100 101110110110 1111101101111 010 1110101111101 11011111111 111101 11101111000 111111010 101110 111111111 1100011110 1010 110111111010 10111110110 1101 11111111011 100101101 11010 110111110101 10011111111 1011 11100111011 1101110111 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, que, leur are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word des is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, tre, te are repeated).

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  • summary of La Spirale Sans Fin Dans Le Vide S'Enfonce;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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