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

La plaine est morne, avec ses clos, avec ses granges
Et ses fermes dont les pignons sont vermoulus, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX XXXXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXX XXXaX XXXcXXXXXXXXXXdd XdX XXXXd XXXXbXXa XbXX XXXX XX Xa XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,7,5,16,3,5,8,4,4,2,2,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101110110 111011101100 11011111111111 110111111111 10001100 111011000 1011100 1100110100 10110101001 11111001 110011110 10111100 1111011 110011011010 11101110101 11001000111 1110011110000 11111100 1101011 0100101011 11001110100 01111100 00111110 11111 1110101 1101011 1111100 111011 11111101110 11101011010 01101101010 11011101001 10111000100 11101011 1111 111110 11101001 100111100 100111000 111111 011101100 111100110101 111011111 111111011010 111111101110 1110011011110 111011100 1011 1110 1110100 10110110 110001111001 10101010011 110101110010 1011110110 11111011110 11001010101 10011111101 10011110 111011110 101010111010 10110101010101 1110101110 1110101110 110110111101 1101111011 110111111111 011101110 10110100 111101110010 1101011010 1100010 111010110011 1100111110 110110110 1111111001 1111100100 11011111010 1111110010 111111011110 11000111110 11111011 111011111010 111101110 111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; et, la, est, morne, ses, plaine, le, les, de, des, h, las are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, et, le, morceaux are repeated.

    The author used the same words dites, et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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