This is an analysis of the poem Les Brumes that begins with:

Brumes mornes d'hiver, mélancoliquement
Et douloureusement, roulez sur mes pensées ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXXXaXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010000 110000101110 111111101000 10101101010 1100101011100 1100101110 10111110001 1100111111110 11111010101 111111101010 11011101110 010111001 11001111111 010010101110 111111101111 100111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 756
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, si, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Les Brumes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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