This is an analysis of the poem Croyance that begins with:

Souvent il m'apparut sous la forme d'un ange
Dont les ailes s'ouvraient,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110011111 11110 1000111111111 11111001111 111100 1110111001110 10010 11100111110 100110011100 11101 1111001110011 110010 1100111011 1101111111 11011 11101111101 111110 1101110111111 11111110011 1110111 10110011110 11101 111000011111 111010111010 11111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, re are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Croyance;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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