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

Moines, vos chants d'aurore ont des élans d'espoir,
Et des bruits retombants de cloche et d'encensoir :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011110 111100011100 11011011100 101110100110 1011011001 11101111101 101011101000 11101110100 111011011010 11110100100 11010011011 111011110100 11000111100 110110110011 110111111101 110101101001 1111011110 111100011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; de is repeated.

    The author used the same word quand at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, tre are repeated).

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

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