This is an analysis of the poem La Peur that begins with:

Par les plaines de ma crainte, tournée au Nord,
Voici le vieux berger des Novembres qui corne, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XaXX 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: 111011111 100110110011 101110110101 111110110011 10111111110 1101101011 10100101101 1011111110 1010110111 1110110101 111111110 0110110011 10111110011 111111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; au, de are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).

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  • summary of La Peur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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