This is an analysis of the poem Un Soir (I) that begins with:
Sur des marais de gangrène et de fiel
Des coeurs d'astres troués saignent du fond du ciel....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bbXX XXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 11101100101 01011111 110010 110011100 011101100 1011101010 11111110 111011110 11001011 101111 1100101 111010 11100010 10111011 10111110 101101011 1111111 1111111 1000111 11110110 11111011 11111110 1111110 1101101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; et, de, la, mort, coeur, mon are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, o, mon are repeated.
The author used the same words pays, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, pre are repeated).
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- summary of Un Soir (I);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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