This is an analysis of the poem Les Espaliers that begins with:
D'énormes espaliers tendaient des rameaux longs
Où les fruits allumaient leur chair et leur pléthore, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXa XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10100101101 11110011111 10111011010 101101101010 1011110111 11101110010 1110110110 1101001101011 10011001111 1111011110110 101000111110 1111101110 1100101001010 11101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; monter, et, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
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- summary of Les Espaliers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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