This is an analysis of the poem Londres that begins with:
Et ce Londres de fonte et de bronze, mon âme,
Où des plaques de fer claquent sous des hangars,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100110111 11101101110 111111101 1111111110 10011011011 11101011101 11110101 1010011110 1111000100100 101110101100 111011110 0101111111 11111100101 111011011011 1111110110 1110111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, des, et, ces are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, et are repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Londres;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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