This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue that begins with:
Oh ! les heures du soir sous ces climats légers,
La lumière en est belle et la lune y est douce, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XcXX bXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111101 11010111111011 11111111110 1101011010 100100100100 10101111101 10101111110 11001101100 100100101011 1110111110 1110111111100 1011101011 1111111111001 11101011110 10011010110 11110001101 111111101111 1101111001 111001111001 11101101110 1011010111 1011111110110 10110111110 110111110 1110111110 101011110110 11101111011111 1110111110 11010111010 01101011010 11111011100 1110111011100 111110110 11111011111 10101111111 11110110111 101111101110 11011100111 01101110 101010101111 11110111111 1101111110 111111101001 1111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; et, les, vous, de, des, vos are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, ves are repeated).
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- summary of Epilogue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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