This is an analysis of the poem Si Morne! that begins with:
Se replier toujours sur soi-même, si morne !
Comme un drap lourd, qu'aucun dessin de fleur n'adorne....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1110101111111 1111100100110 1110100011110 1111011011110 11111101001 0101101011 101011110010 111011101110 1110101110100 111011110100 101010111011 111111101101 11011111000 11110111100 1010010010 11011111011 101100111010 011110111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; se, et, ses, les are repeated.
The author used the same word se at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Si Morne!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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