This is an analysis of the poem Insomnie that begins with:
Insomnie, impalpable Bête !
N’as-tu d’amour que dans la tête ?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXa bXcXXX XXXXXX XXXbXX aXXXXa XXXXXX cXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 11011111 110111 1110111 111110111 11101001 11010111 101110 1011111 1010111 1010010 101111101 10110110 1010111 11100110 1001001 11001110 111110 1011111 1101010 1110110 1011101 101101 111110101 1010101 1111110 11001101 11110110 0101001 111011 10111 111010 1110011 1111101 1111101 1111111 1011111 0100101 01011001 11110011 11110111 110001011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; te, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pourquoi, de are repeated.
The author used the same word insomnie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, re are repeated).
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- summary of Insomnie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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