This is an analysis of the poem Dicté En Présence Du Glacier Du Rhône that begins with:

Causa tangor ab omni.
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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXXXaX XXXXXX XXbXXX aXXXXb XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110 10 101101111000 111100110110 1100111111111 1001110110 011101111 0101111 10110111 11001111 0100110110 1100111001 11011111010 1111110 11101010111 11111111 11110011110 11111110 11110101110 1110010 1011111011 111001111011 100100111 01111111001 1111011011 111011 10110011000 101111111000 11110011110 11110111110 00110011111 111010 11111111110 01010101111 11110111100 11111001111 111101110 110101111 11110111110 10101110001 1011011111 11001110100 111111110100 101101001 0101101011 11001011101 1011101011 11011011001 101011101110 111100111 1101001101110 11110100010 01010111110 1111010111 101010101111 10001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; t, tant, sur, en, le, et, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, tant are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, es are repeated).

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  • summary of Dicté En Présence Du Glacier Du Rhône;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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