This is an analysis of the poem Dimanche Matin that begins with:
Oh ! Les éveils des bourgades sous l'or des branches,
Où courent la lumière et l'ombre - et les roseaux ...
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: 111110011110 110110111110 111001110011 111110111110 10110111110 101000110111 100110110110 1110100101110 11111101100 110111101100 100111101001 101100111011 1011110110101 11110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; et, des, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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More information about poems by Emile Verhaeren
- Analysis of Chaque Heure, Où Je Songe À Ta Bonté
- Analysis of Chanson De Fou (1)
- Analysis of Chanson De Fou (2)
