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

En automne, dans la douceur des mois pâlis,
Quand les heures d'après-midi tissent leurs mailles, ...

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: 1101110111 111011010110 1101111110 101111101100 11010110011 1000010101100 11101111001 111010110010 101010111001 0111101101 111111110 10001110011 10100111001 11100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; des, les are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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