This is an analysis of the poem Soir that begins with:
Je viens de voir ma bien-aimée
Et vais au hasard, sans desseins,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXa 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: 11101111 11110110 1111110 0111011 1111001 110101 111011 1101110 1010100 11001111 111011100 10101011 01101100 111111010 10111110 11100111 11111010 10111100 10010101 10100110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; de, le are repeated.
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- summary of Soir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Charles Cros
- Analysis of Songe D'Été
- Analysis of Sonnet (A Mademoiselle S. De L. C.)
- Analysis of Sonnet (J'Ai Bâti Dans Ma Fantaisie)
