This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Croupe D'Un Mont Je Vis Une Fabrique that begins with:

Sur la croupe d'un mont je vis une fabrique
De cent brasses de haut : cent colonnes d'un rond...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aab XbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11111111110 011001110011 10010010011 111011110 110101101 111010101011 10011011010 1111011110 11010101011 1001010101 011011101 11001110100 10100111101 100111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la, le are repeated.

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  • summary of Sur La Croupe D'Un Mont Je Vis Une Fabrique;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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