This is an analysis of the poem La Cloche Fêlée (The Cracked Bell) that begins with:
II est amer et doux, pendant les nuits d'hiver,
D'écouter, près du feu qui palpite et qui fume,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXa b aacd Xebe cfa ghc X B eded ieie jjk kjj b B adad ebeX jjh fhf i X jeej jeej cck kff a B aXXd ecfe ffa gha X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011011101110 10101110111 11011010010 111100110111 10011110100 11110101110 110011100 101011011111 1110111100110 11011101111 1011011110 101111101 111101111101 111110110010 011 0010111101 0101010111100 01010111110 10100111001 1000110101 010011010101 100100101 1111010001 1110111010010 110010111001 0101010101 010011000101 01001010110101 110110101000 010110100 011 0111000101 0101010101 1100010111 0100110101 10011100111 0101011101 0101010101 1111010001 1101110101 0101010101 0101110101 0101011001 01010101010 1001010001 0101110 011 101100111101 0101010110101 110111111101 100100111001 110111101101 010111011101 100001110101 111101010111 111111010111 011111010101 1101001110101 1001001001111 010101100101 1101100101001 01011011001 111 1101110101 0101011101 01110010001 1111010101 101010101 0111010111 1101110001 1101000101 1101011100 1101010100 1101010001 11001010101 1011010111 100111100111 0101101011 011 00101110101 01001010101 01010010010 00100110101 1010010010 1011110110 111000101 111100101001 1110111010 010010011001001 1001010101 11011100110010 101001011001101 1101100101010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 99
- 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; qui, that, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of La Cloche Fêlée (The Cracked Bell);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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