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