This is an analysis of the poem La Vague that begins with:
Est-ce la nuit ? Non, c’est le jour, un jour livide,
Un jour qui désespéra, empli d’un morne effroi....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaXX XaXXa XXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111011110 11110101110 101111011110 111110100101 11100010101 11011011101 10010111010 110011110110 1101100111111 111011100 1111011110 1011111101111 110111011011 11001011101 1111111111 11010111001 111001100110 01001101100 111111001001 111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; un, est, d, jour, la, elle, de, l are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of La Vague;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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