This is an analysis of the poem Moine Épique that begins with:
On eût dit qu'il sortait d'un désert de sommeil,
Où, face à face, avec les gloires du soleil,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX Xa XX XX XX XX XX Xa XX XX XX Xa XX XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011010 11110110001 11101111010 101101101000 1111101100 1110111110 1101011010 101100111011 111101110 11110110110 1110101110111 101101110011 111010110100 11110110011 1101111111 110110110010 11111101 1110111101 1111111111 1100111011 11011010001 1111111110111 1111001101110 1110011100 1101001111100 11101010100 01101011111 1110011111 100111111110 1101111011110 1101011101110 11111101110 11110001111000 10011101101 1010011010 11111010100 1010101111100 11111111100 101101010100 11101010101 10110111111 11110110100 11010111011 1010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, de, son, et, tre, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words son, et, mais are repeated.
The author used the same word qui 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, e, tard, tre are repeated).
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- summary of Moine Épique;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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