This is an analysis of the poem At The Green Inn, Five In The Evening (Au Cabaret-Vert, Cinq Heures Du Soir) that begins with:

For a whole week I had ripped up my boots
on the stones of the roads. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcccabddXXb X X XXXX eXeX XXX XaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,1,1,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111111 101001 110010000011 11111001110 11111101111110 01101100101000110 101101010011 11010110111 10011111101111 101011111 10001010111111 1111001 1010111 01001 1101111001 10111011100 11011010100 11011111001100 01101011101 1001001101110 11110011011 011001110100 1111110111 1111111011 1100110001 0101111100 0101111011 111011011011 11011000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • 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; i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, du are repeated.

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

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  • summary of At The Green Inn, Five In The Evening (Au Cabaret-Vert, Cinq Heures Du Soir);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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