This is an analysis of La Prière D'Adam by Léon Dierx.

Songe horrible ! - la foule innombrable des âmes
M'entourait. Immobile et muet, devant nous,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11001110011 10001011101 111111110110 1101111110 1010000111 11110110111 10011110011 10000101100 1101111001 1001100111 10001110111 110111011110 1111010110 111101111 1110011110 111111011010111 110100110011110 11111010111 1001110111011 101010111111001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

des, et, son, les, '

Epiphora

tre

Anadiplosis

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