This is an analysis of the poem Au Loin that begins with:
Ancres abandonnées sous des hangars maussades,
Porches de suie et d'ombre où s'engouffrent des voix,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXaaXaXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,22,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001110100 100111110011 101010101010 11001001111 110111101101 1111111111 0111011110111 11101101011 1010101111101 111011111010 110101010 11001001110 11101110110 1111101110 111101110100 011111101110 101011100011 11110011010 111011010100 111110110 0111011110 111101110 1111100010 1110111111 111101011110 01100110110 10111010010 1011111110 11111110100 11100001110 111011111100 100011011110 110011111111 1011011100 1111011101 111110011010 11111110111 111010100011 010010111111 1111010110 10111111110 111111110 111111111 111010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 693
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; des, et, les, quel, de, fais, ton, r, ve, songe, s, aux, ces are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, des, fais, songe are repeated.
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- summary of Au Loin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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