Les Néréides by Theophile Gautier: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Les Néréides that begins with:

J'ai dans ma chambre une aquarelle
Bizarre, et d'un peintre avec qui ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX bXXX XXXc bXXa XXXX XXcd XXae XXXX XXXX eXXX XXXX XdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11111100 01111101 1111110 10100 11111 0101011 11101011 11010110 111111 1111010 10111101 1011100 111110 0101010 1011001 111111 101111 100111 1110111 01101011 110010100 10111010 10101010 11101110 11110111 11111010 1011011 1011010 1110110 11111010 11011001 10101110 0100101 0101010 1011011 011010 110001100 11010110 11010110 11101001 11101011 1100100 111010110 1010010 10111011 110101 1000111 11001101 011100 010011101 111111 110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • 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.

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  • summary of Les Néréides;
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  • history of its creation;
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