This is an analysis of the poem Août that begins with:
C'est la fenaison ; personne ne chôme.
Dès qu'on voit du jour poindre les blancheurs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1110010111 1101011110 110111010 110011101 111101001 1101010101 1011011110 1011010 1110111100 111001100 111111101 11011111 111111100 010111010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Août;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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