This is an analysis of the poem Juillet that begins with:

Depuis les feux de l'aube aux feux du crépuscule,
Le soleil verse à flots ses torrides rayons ;...

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 pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 10110111010 00111110010 111011110110 10111001100 011101111110 1110100110 11011111000 11001111110 1101111111 1111001110100 10111011110 1111011010 111101100100 110110111110 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; les is repeated.

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  • summary of Juillet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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