This is an analysis of the poem L'Oeil that begins with:
Sous l'épais treillis des feuilles tremblantes,
Au plus noir du bois la lune descend ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110100 111011101 11110110110 101111000 11011110010 110110 11111010 11100111110 111010101 11111100110 1101111110 101110 01011110010 111101110 1111111110 1101111010 11101111100 10100 111001110 101110110 111111101 111110100 1111101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; des, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, semble are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines las is repeated).
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- summary of L'Oeil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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