This is an analysis of the poem Soir Religieux (I) that begins with:

Près du fleuve roulant vers l'horizon ses ors
Et ses pourpres et ses vagues entre-frappées, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10110110011 111011101010 111010101101 101010110100 1110111001 11000110101 11001101010 1110111111 11110010101 01100110011 110011101100 11101111110 0101010101111 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; ses, et, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ses, et are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Soir Religieux (I);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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