This is an analysis of the poem Apparition that begins with:
Je vis un ange blanc qui passait sur ma tête ;
Son vol éblouissant apaisait la tempête,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXABCXXADDAXEEXFXXXXXABCXXADDAXEEXFXXXXABCXXADDAXEEXF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110111 111010011 11011111101 10111111111 10111110111111 11111111111 111101101101011 1110011111000 111101011110 1011111111 11000111111 111101010011 111110111111111 1111001111 111011111110 11111110101 11110111101100 1101011011 1010 111111110111 111010011 11011111101 10111111111 10111110111111 11111111111 111101101101011 1110011111000 111101011110 1011111111 11000111111 111101010011 111110111111111 1111001111 111011111110 11111110101 11110111101100 1101011011 111111110111 111010011 11011111101 10111111111 10111110111111 11111111111 111101101101011 1110011111000 111101011110 1011111111 11000111111 111101010011 111110111111111 1111001111 111011111110 11111110101 11110111101100 1101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2707
- Average number of words per stanza: 517
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, lui, et, la, que, tu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).
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- summary of Apparition;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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