This is an analysis of the poem Les Vêpres that begins with:
Moines, vos chants du soir roulent parmi leurs râles
Le flux et le reflux des douleurs vespérales....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101011 011010110100 1111110110 01010110100 11111111000 1111111110 1111011110 111011101010 1111101110 110011011011 11110101111 11000101110 1110011011 111111101100 10011011111 010111111110 1110101111 1011101111 1101011110011 101011110101 11101101011 011010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; le, les, la, leurs are repeated.
The author used the same word lorsque 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 res is repeated).
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- summary of Les Vêpres;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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