This is an analysis of the poem Les Plaines that begins with:
Sous la tristesse et l'angoisse des cieux
Les lieues...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXX aXXXXXbXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXbbX XX XcXXXXXXXaXXXXXd XaXXXXXXaX XXXXcXXXdXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,16,11,2,16,10,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011011 11 111011 1111 111010 10011 111011 10111011 11111111 110111 1110 1111111 110111 1010101 1111110 1100111010 111011100 1100100 10001001 0111 01101100 11111 100110 0101101 100111001 010101010 1101 1110111 1011101 11001111101 11111100110 101011111 1010011 1110110 111111 100000101111 111010 11101 11100110 1101 010 10110101 11111011 1100111010 1010 111111 11111110 1100111 101011110 1101100110 11111 11111111 1100101110 11100110010 1101001 10001011 10111110 10111100 1111110111110 1101110100 11100 100011100 11111 1000110 111111 110011100 0100111 010111111 11111 111111 1110111 1001011111 11011001101 1110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 74
- 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; les, de, ni, la, plaine are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ches, me, es, bres are repeated).
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- summary of Les Plaines;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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