Poem Analysis of Aux Moines by Emile Verhaeren for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Aux Moines that begins with:

Moines venus vers nous des horizons gothiques,
Mais dont l'âme, mais dont l'esprit meurt de demain, ...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXabXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,19,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110111010100 11111101001 110101110100 111010011010 10110011111 11100111010 10111010011110 11110111001 1001111100011 1110011111 111001111011 111010111101 11110010100 1110100110 101011111110 11110011010 10010101110 1111010100 11110111011 11010111111 11010101110 111111010 100011011111 1011111010 11100111010 11101110110 1000100111110 111001101 01111011111 11110010010 101010111 10101111110 101111110111 0111101101 1111110101 1110110101
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 861
Average number of words per stanza: 157
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, de, que, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words seuls, oh, moines are repeated.

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Aux Moines by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

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