This is an analysis of the poem Ce Que Dit La Bouche D'Ombre (Ii) that begins with:
Espérez ! espérez ! espérez, misérables !
Pas de deuil infini, pas de maux incurables, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXab XXXXaX XXcdXc XXeXXe XXXXXX aXXXXX cXXXXb XXXXXX XXdXXX XXdXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXdcXX XcXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010100 1011001011000 11010 11011111110 11101111100 01101 01011100100101 110101010111 11010 110111110100 11110010111 01111 110111011111 1101110101111 1011101 110101111010 1001110110011 101010 1101010011 101101111101 101011 0110011101 1100001111 01110 1110111010 1001110100 110110 1111011010 1110001010 1110100 11110101100 110001111 11001 111001110110 110001011010 011 101101010110 1010110110 101011 100011110 101001101011 110111 10101110011 101100111010 10101 101010110 1010101100100 10010 11010011010 1101101110 11011 10101111100 1111100101110 11010 1110011111 110100110111 0101 010100110110 111110100011 111000 1100001010 110010110111 110010 11001111100 1100111110 111 1100101101000 1010011101000 111100 1101111011 11111100100 110100 11011011011 1011011001 110011 1101111011110 110100100110 110100 11011010110 10110010111 110110 11101101110 1111101111 1010111 111111110011 11110111010 111100 11101111111 11101001101 101 1101011000110 1001011011100 10110 1001111010011 11010011111 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; esp, pas, rez, le, est, la, les, des, de, plus are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pas, les, comme, la, le, quel, et are repeated.
The author used the same word ils 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 le, che, e, bres, es, ve, re are repeated).
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