This is an analysis of the poem Silencieusement that begins with:

En un plein jour, larmé de lampes,
Qui brûlent en l'honneur ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXXa a XX aXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,2,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 11110 0110001 0101110010 011110 1101100 1111000 1111000110 11101011 10111111 101101010 111011110 111101101101 1111011100 101101101010 100111101101 101100111101 101101111 1111000011 110111 1001110010 101110110 1100101111 111011000100 10101110 1110111111001 11011010 10111001 11111111 11111001010 1101101010 1010010110110 1111011111110 101111110110 11101001011101 10101011110 11110100111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et, le, ne are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, gre are repeated).

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

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