This is an analysis of the poem Lendemain that begins with:

Avec les fleurs, avec les femmes,
Avec l’absinthe, avec le feu,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110110 10101001 111110011 111111 1011110 1011110 1111111 10010011 111010110 1011010 1100100 11111110110 1110101 1011111 11111011 10101110 11011110 1111100 11101010 101110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; avec, et, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words avec, et, les are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Lendemain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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