This is an analysis of the poem L'Abreuvoir that begins with:
En un creux de terrain aussi profond qu'un antre,
Les étangs s'étalaient dans leur sommeil moiré, ...
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: 1110011010101 111011101 1101001110 1110011110110 110100111010 101111011 1111111101010 100110111010 11000111100 11101100110 01001110100 11010110110 11100101100 11111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; les is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word des is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).
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- summary of L'Abreuvoir;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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