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

Après avoir vidé toutes les coupes, toutes!
Il faut enfin rentrer; car mes fibres dissoutes,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101110 1110101110100 111111110 111111111010 101010111110 111010011101 11001010110 100100110010 11001110101111 110010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, s, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vous is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Noceur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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