This is an analysis of the poem Le Tremble Est Blanc that begins with:

Le temps irrévocable a fui. L'heure s'achève.
Mais toi, quand tu reviens, et traverses mon rêve, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011000111 111110110011 111111011111 1111 010011110 110101110110 100111011000 1011 11110010101 0110100110110 11011111110110 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; ve, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tes is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve is repeated).

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  • summary of Le Tremble Est Blanc;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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