This is an analysis of the poem Des Soirs that begins with:
Sous les vitres du hall nitreux que le froid fore
Et vrille et que de mats brouillards baignent de vair, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXa 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: 111001101011 111101101001 1111101110 101010011010 111010101111 1010111111 11011110011 11011011111 1101110111 010111101101 11001111111 1110110101 11111111101 111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- 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: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et, le are repeated.
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- summary of Des Soirs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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