This is an analysis of the poem Légendes that begins with:
Les horizons cuivrés des suprêmes automnes
Meurent là-bas, au loin, dans un carnage d'or....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXA XXXX XXXX XaXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110100 10111111101 111111100100 110111110011 1101111100110 11110011010 1011101111100 10111101110 110111111100 1011101101011 11101111110 11101111010 110010111010 1011110011 11111110010 110111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; les, leurs, ils, la are repeated.
The author used the same word ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Légendes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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