This is an analysis of the poem Après Les Vents, Après Le Triste Orage that begins with:

Après les vents, après le triste orage,
Après l'yver, qui de ravines d'eaux...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XaX XXa XXX XXX bcb XXc XdX dXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110 11010011 101110100 1010110010 0110101011 1111011010 111111010 011011011 1110011011 111110111111 1101011010 10111111111 111110111 1110111110 111111111 111011100 10111110100 111011110 11001001100 101010100 011011100 1110101100 1110111010 111001010 0111111010 111111111 1000101110 1111111010 111101111 1110110111 011111011 10011110100 1111111100 10101111001 1110110010 1111101011 11101100111 0110111001 110110011 011010110 11100111110 011001111 1110101010 0110111 110101100 11000110 1110011010 1101110 111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; s, apr, de, bien, plus, je, me are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Après Les Vents, Après Le Triste Orage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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