This is an analysis of the poem Le Moulin that begins with:
Le moulin tourne au fond du soir, très lentement,
Sur un ciel de tristesse et de mélancolie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001111011100 1110101010 11111111001 0111111111000 1011111101 111101111110 110011111110 10101001101 111010111010 11011110110010 1011101100110 110011110101 10111101001 11000110011 11011110 111111011 111101110110 1100101011100 1011100110100 01011111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; et, tourne, de, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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- summary of Le Moulin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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