This is an analysis of the poem Un Soir that begins with:

Avec les doigts de ma torture
Gratteurs de mauvaise écriture, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX X XXXX X XXXX X XXXX X XXXX X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110110 1001010 1010001 1111111 1111011 10001110 101011 1010110 111111101 1111011 11101101111 1111111 100111 1001110 1111011 11110111 110110 11110111110 111010110 1111011 11110101 100101 11111110 1111111 1111011 010111 10111110 11101110 01111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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