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

Des murs crépis, de pauvres toits,
Un pont, un chemin de halage, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 11110010 10011111 01111010 11001110 11011010 00111110 11011110 11101110 11101110 0100111 11111 111110 1111111 10111011 11010100 1101101 010111 01111110 011111110 11101010 0110100 11111100 1111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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, les are repeated.

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

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