This is an analysis of the poem Croquis De Cloître (I) that begins with:

Dans un pesant repos d'après-midi vermeil,
Les stalles en vieux chêne éteint sont alignées, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11101111010 11011111100 10110011010 101101110001 11111101011 1111111111 11110111110101 1110111111 111011101 111001011101 11001110011 111111101111 111011101011 1101101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; m, mes, et, sur are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words m, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, s are repeated).

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  • summary of Croquis De Cloître (I);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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