This is an analysis of the poem A Celle Qui Est Voilée that begins with:

Tu me parles du fond d'un rêve
Comme une âme parle aux vivants. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa bXXX XXXX cXXX XaXa XXXX XXdX XXaX XXXX XXXe XXXX XXXX XdXX XXXX XaXX fXXg XXXX XXXX XeXX XXXX XgXg XXXX beae fXXX XXXX chXX XhXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111 1111110 11011 111111 11111111 01001010 11110111 11111 1011010 111110 111110010 01110100 1110101111 1111101 101111 1110011 111111111 10111111 11101 1111010 101110 11111 1111110 11011111 1110110 1110111 11110010 1100110 111111111 11010110 1111111 111100111 1111010 1111111 1111011 11010 111111 11011000 111010 1110010 111011110 1111100 1111111 01010110 1101011 1011110 0101010 100100 1011110 111110 111011 0110100 1011111 111111110 1010011 0110010 01011110 11111110 10010110 100110 1111111011 1111111 111111101 101111010 111101110 11101101 1111111 10100111 1101110 11110100 111010 1111010 11101110 1011001 110111010 111111 01110001 0110110 100110100 11000 11010110 01010111 10111111 01011101 1111110 11111101 11001110 1100101 111110 1101010 110111 0101001 011111 11111011 110101 1110111 11111010 11111101 100111 1010110 01110100 101111 1101110 01111100 111111 1010111 100101111 11111110 1111011 11101011 10101110 1101111 10100110 1111101 0110100 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, la, tu, le, mes, de, d', tre, un are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words comme, et, sois, car, tu, du, o, c'est are repeated.

    The author used the same words viens, c'est at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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