This is an analysis of the poem Les Ombres that begins with:
Trouant de tes rayons sans nombre
Le feuillage léger, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXX XXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 0101 01 1101110 01010110 11101110 1010110 11010110 1010 110100111010 111110 1011010 1110 110111100 1111100 101111 1011 11011010011 10010110011 110101011 1011010 110111100 111011011000 1 11101110011 1100110101 101101111110 11110101111111 1110 10010110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, les, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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- summary of Les Ombres;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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