This is an analysis of the poem Au Revoir that begins with:
That morn our hearts were like artesian wells,
Both deep and calm, and brimming with pure love.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeaXfghijkXcjkfdXaakbfk caXcifceedfjkakXadadbfdkifbcXj jkeXchdXddiaddfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,30,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011101 1111110011 1011101101 1111110101 01010111001 1101010011 1101011101 0101010101 1111110001 0101111011 0100010101 0111010001 0101011011 1101010001 1100111101 1101010101 1101110001 1101000101 1101110101 1101100111 1101010101 1101110011 1001110101 0100110011 11011111 0101000101 1101111101 1111010101 1111010111 1100100101 1111010101 1101110101 0101000101 1101010101 0101010101 1111110101 1001011011 01010011001 1111110111 0101010101 0110110101 10010101100 1011000111 1111000101 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1111011111 0111010001 1111110101 1101000101 10111100101 1101010111 1101010101 10001001101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011101 1000100101 1101100101 1111010101 0100110111 11010111010 1101110001 0101110011 1001000101 0101110011 1111000111 1101110101 11101000111 101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 765
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 71
- 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; and, to, of, as 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 Au Revoir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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