This is an analysis of the poem L'Étal that begins with:
Au soir tombant, lorsque déjà l'essor
De la vie agitée et rapace s'affaisse,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXa XbXXXXX XXXXbX XXA XcXXXXXXXX XXXXXbXXXX XXA XXXXXb XXXXXX XXXcX XXXXaaXXXX XXA XXXXXcXXXXXXX XaXX XXXXbcXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,6,3,10,10,3,6,6,5,10,3,13,4,9,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 0111011010 1111111111 0101111111 01010111 110101111 10000101010 11110 10101101010 11101011 1111110100 01111110 01011011111 1001111101 11011 011110010100 1011111001 1111100100 1111100110 1101011100 0111011 1110111110 111010001101 111011101100 0111011110 11111011 011111110 110101111100 11111110011 111111111110 11001001011 111011101110 101101110 11001011110 111011111100 100111111111 1110101101 111101010 11111110010 11001110100 1011111101 1111100110 1101011100 0111011 1001101011000 100110101100 101111111110 101110110110 1001001011100 11001100110001 110010111001 1011111111110 110010111010 1110101110100 1110111001 111010111101 1101101111 111011101 1101010111 1110101011110 1111101110 1100110010110 111011101100 11111011 11011001110 11011111101 111111011 1011011111000 101111110010 11101110011 1111100 1111100110 1101011100 0111011 110111110 11011010 110101101 111011110 111101010 111100011 110011101011 1110110110 11010110110 1010100 11011100 101111 111111 10111111110 11101111101 0110011010 1010110111 11001110100 111111 110100111 01110011100 1101100110 11101110100 10110111011 11110110010 11111100011 11110111 1101110111 111011111111110 11111111011000 11101101110 11101110011 1111100110 10111101 11111 11101000 111110 1101011100 10000111011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 113
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, de, des, les, la, un, se are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words venus, avec, les, des, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, mes, clairs are repeated).
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- summary of L'Étal;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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