Ô Le Calme Jardin D'Été Où Rien Ne Bouge by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ô Le Calme Jardin D'Été Où Rien Ne Bouge that begins with:

Ô le calme jardin d'été où rien ne bouge !
Sinon là-bas, vers le milieu ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110111111 10111001 011110 1011001 11010 11110111110 101100 1100111 0101011 1111110100 11110001 1111011110100 11101000 101110 111011101010 11101110 1110 11101110 101001110 10011101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et is repeated.

    The author used the same word 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 es is repeated).

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