This is an analysis of the poem Le Silence that begins with:
Depuis l'été que se brisa sur elle
Le dernier coup d'éclair et de tonnerre,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXXXXbb XXXaXX cXXXcXbX XX XXXX XXcXXXXXbX XXX XXXXXcXXXX XXXcXXdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,6,8,2,4,10,3,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111011 010111010 0101110 011 10010111101 10111011 10010111000 1011101 10010110011000 1111110 11011101 110100111 10101001 010111 11111110 1111100010 111010000 11101110 11111101110 11111110 11111101111 1001110 10111100 11110 1100111 11100110 10010111011 111010101000 111001100 10110110 1101100 010010100 1111011 11100000111 11100101 101111111010 011010 10111100 1101001110 100110110100 10011110 10101111100 1011101 110111011 111 11101111100 111111111110 01001011111 111111110100 1010001011 1011111111 11111111 111101 1010100 1101011100110 111011000 111001100 1110001011 1000111101 10101100 11110111 1110110001 010110111100 10001011101 11100110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; des, l', les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of Le Silence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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