This is an analysis of the poem Vers Le Cloître that begins with:
Je rêve une existence en un cloître de fer,
Brûlée au jeûne et sèche et râpée aux cilices, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXB XXXX bXXb XXXX AXXB XbXX XXXX XXXX AXXB XXXX XXXX XXXXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011101 11111111100 111000101100 11100110111 10100111001 110111111111 10111011010 1100110010 10111111101 101101011110 111101100100 1010111010111 10111100101 111011110110 1110010111001 10101010110 111101011101 11111111100 111000101100 11100110111 110001111011 1111000111101 11111111010 100011100111 111001111111 11101110111 1100011110111 11111101101 11110001100100 11111011010 1111111110 101011100100 111101011101 11111111100 111000101100 11100110111 111011011 0111100111100 11111101110 111101111111 101111110111 10110111101 10101010111 111010110110 111100111100 1101100011 1111010010 10100011100 111101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; de, et, ces, des, le, dans, son, se, ses are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dites, et are repeated.
The author used the same word dites 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 me, tre are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase l'aboi connects the lines.
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- summary of Vers Le Cloître;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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