This is an analysis of the poem Les Greniers that begins with:
Sous le manteau des toits s'étalaient les greniers
Larges, profonds, avec de géantes lignées ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX 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: 10101110110 10101001010 010011010010 1101111100 11011110100 110110110110 1100110010 10111010110 1101011111 10111110011 101101001010 1111010111010 11010111010 101111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; de, les, par are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
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- summary of Les Greniers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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