This is an analysis of the poem Isolement that begins with:
Sous le soleil torride au beau pays créole,
Où l'Africain se courbe au bambou de l'Anglais,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXbX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101111 1100111110010 1010001011 1110110111 11011011101 11011110110 11101110001 01100111010 101101111 111011110010 11010001011 111011110110 111011111 1111011110 10010111100 11111111011 11111111011 11011110010 11110111110 1101110110 11111111110 1110100110111 101101011010 1010101010 11011111110 1001101110 1010011110101 111101001110 111010110110 11011001110 111110111100 1010101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; et, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sur is repeated.
The author used the same word ce at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Isolement;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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