This is an analysis of the poem Là-Bas that begins with:
Calmes voluptueux, avec des encensoirs
Et des rythmes lointains par le soir solitaire, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX XXXXXXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10100101100 111010101101 11100011011 011111101011 1101011100111 10100100110 11101111010 111011101010 10110101100 101010111001 111011101111 0111110111 11101011110 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, et, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same word calmes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Là-Bas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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