This is an analysis of the poem L'Isolement (Moreau) that begins with:

De mon riche avenir vous voilà créancière,
Madame ; quand l’oubli me jetait en poussière,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXb XXXXXXXX XXbXcdXXeeXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXfXcXXcXX XfXXXXXbXXXXdXXXXXaXXbXXXXXXXXXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,8,36,32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111001110 10110110110 1111011110 11010111000 1111111111 1011111110 11111110110 111111111111 1101001011 111010111111 1010011111 11110111110 110011111110 1101010110 1011101111 11011111 1110111111 011010110111 110111111101 101001111 11111101111 111101111 10110010110 111100111011 101111110110 11110101101100 1111111110 110100111110 111110101 1011101010101 1101010111 11110100101 11101111101 110100110111 110101110010 101110011000 1111100110010 11011011010 1111110100 111110111100 11011111110 111111111111 1111011110 1011011111100 11111011110 10011110110 11111111100 010110101010 1101110111 011101101110 101111111110 1111011111 101101101 11101010110 110110101110 110111011100 111101111101 1111011011 110001110111 111011110 11101010110 11101011001 11111110011 1110101011 1101010110 1111111111 110101111010 11110011110010 1011101100 1110111010 10101101100 11101101110 111000110111 11111101111 110110101101 111100111010 1110111010 11011011111 11101001110 1111011111101 111101011 10111111011 11101011111 100111010010 11011100011 1011011001 11110111010 0111100110 111111 10111011001 101110111010 10110100110 11111111001 110111111 101110100110 1010111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 228
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, d, le, l, qui, de, m, vous, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words si, voir are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, e, part, es, moi, tombe, chanson are repeated).

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  • summary of L'Isolement (Moreau);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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