This is an analysis of the poem First Evening (Première Soirée) that begins with:
Her clothes were almost off;
Outside, a curious tree...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB dedb fgXh eaea eXef ijgj XiXi ABCB j X XXXX eeXe XXXh XkXk eXXX XXXX XlXl XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 1101001 1011010 011011 111010101 111101 0110101 111110 11101011 100111 1001 0011011010 11010010 110111 11001010 010101 01110001 11111 111101 1111010 01100111 11111 011111 110111 110101 11001001 1111 01110110 010111 1101001 1011010 011011 01001 101 111110 10110100 1101011 10001111 101111 1111011 10101001 11011111 111001001 11010100 10001110 111111100 111011100 1111110 11011010 1101010 11011101 1110111101 1101010 0110010 10100111 111010011 110111 11011111 10111110 1110100111 11101111 1111101 11110 10110100 1101011 10001111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The author used the same words i, her, je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of First Evening (Première Soirée);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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