This is an analysis of the poem La Plaine (I) that begins with:
Je veux mener tes yeux en lent pèlerinage
Vers ces loins de souffrance, hélas ! où depuis quand, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXA XbcX XX bXX XcC XXAa bXXbX XXXc XXA Xaa XXXXXXdXXdX XXAXXcXXX XXcCXXXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,2,3,3,4,5,4,3,3,11,9,9,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101111100 11101011101 101110111100 111100 11111101 10011011 1110110 1100110110 1110011 0011110 111111111 1110110 10101110111 10101111110 101110111110 1101100100100 100110101011 1111101 111100 1111111 10011011 11101010 1100111011 1110111010 1110111100 11111011 1000110111 110010101 11000110101 1111011 100011111 111100 11111101 10011011 110100011 10110110 111111111 11111110110110 11101101 10111011 11111110110 10110 11110110 10110101 11101110110 01111011101101 1011111 01001110 111100 11111101 10011011 1001101001 111001110 111001101111 110101 101110 10001000 11011101000 0111010 10111101 1111101 101011111011 1011111 111011111 10011001 1001111110 110011101101 1111111101 1011101100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, quelques, et, mes, la, morne, des, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c'est, quelques, et, mes are repeated.
The author used the same words c'est, mes, et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ment, fiert, es are repeated).
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- summary of La Plaine (I);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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