This is an analysis of the poem Une Statue (2) that begins with:

Au carrefour des abattoirs et des casernes,
Il apparaît, foudroyant et vermeil,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXA bXX aXb XXX XX XXXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XbX XXXX XXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,2,4,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110011100 1100100110 0101111001 110101 1100111010111 101110001 1111110 1101111110 1101 10110111 10111101 10101110 11011011111100 11111010 1101101 1111 111101010 10111101011 101010110110 11010100001 1000110 11110110001 111011110001 101010011 1011110110 1101010 11101011111 1111010110100 1011111011 111101101 10110101 01101100111 10101111 111011111011110 0101011100 01111111 101111001100 1100110011100 1100100110 0101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; de, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word il 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 te is repeated).

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  • summary of Une Statue (2);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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