This is an analysis of the poem Moine Sauvage that begins with:

On trouve encor de grands moines que l'on croirait
Sortis de la nocturne horreur d'une forêt....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX aX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX aX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11110111110 1001101011 11010101100 110110111010 1100011110 11011111011 11111111001 1110110111010 11111111011 11010111011 11101100111 11001011100 1011111101 11010111010 1110101011001 1101001111110 11111010010 111110110100 1011111111100 111111001110 11110111010 11111111100 1110111011100 10110111100 11101111101 111011111001 111001101100 110110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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, et, leur, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    The author used the same word et 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, e are repeated).

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  • summary of Moine Sauvage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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