This is an analysis of the poem Plus Loin Que Les Gares, Le Soir that begins with:

L'ombre s'installe, avec brutalité ;
Mais les ciseaux de la lumière, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX bXXb XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100 11100110 111110100 01100111 110111101011 101111111 1011101111 111110111010 10111110 01101101 110000100110 10001110111 111100010010 1101101110110 1111111011 111011011010 1101011110 10011111010 1101110101 1111010110110 01100011111 10111101001 10110110011 1111011101110 111111101010 111101110100 11101011010 11111111100 1110101111111 11111011001 10111111101111 111011111 1011011101 111101101100 111011111010 11101110110 11111101110 1110011010100 101010111010 1110011101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; re, et, des, de, la, 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.

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  • summary of Plus Loin Que Les Gares, Le Soir;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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