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

Au long de promenoirs qui s'ouvrent sur la nuit
- Balcons de fleurs, rampes de flammes -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXXXXXX bXcXXXXX XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX baXX XXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100110111 100110010 11011011 10001111 00101111110 11010110 1011110011 1001111000 111011110 1001001000 1100100 1001101100 1110110010 100110010 1101001111011 111111110 110110011111 01100110100 11110011001 100010110001 11101011 10101101 10111101 0111101101 1101101001000 111101110100 111101011 10001100 11111111 1110110 11111011101 1111110 111111011 1111110011 111110 11110 1101011010 111011110 10110110 1101101 1111110 1001101 11110101 1101001 11100110 1011110 11110101 111101110 11111100 110010111 01011110 1010110010 111101011 1011011011 100111100001 10010010 110100110011 01010 1101011 10001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; de, et, e, les are repeated.

    The author used the same word telle 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 es, mes, tre are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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