This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Côte that begins with:

Un vent rude soufflait par les azurs cendrés,
Quand du côté de l'aube, ouverte à l'avalanche, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX 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: 1111011101 1010110100 100101111 1111010101 011011111111 11101111111 110111011 11100010111 1111011101 10101001111 110111111100 1110101101 111010111010 111101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • 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; jour, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

  • summary of Sur La Côte;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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