This is an analysis of the poem L'En-Avant that begins with:

Le corps ployé sur ma fenêtre,
Les nerfs vibrants et sonores de bruit, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXbXbXX XXbaXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111 1110110001 11011110111 110011110011 1111011101 1100111111 100111010101 011111111 111111111 101111111101 1101010011 010100111011 11101111110 1111011110 100001101 1110110101 10101010110 101111010 10101110110 110111111 1110100110010 11101110101 1110010111 01011111100 101011010100 1110101101 1100100 10101011111 11100010101 100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; et, dans, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

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  • summary of L'En-Avant;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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