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

Il faisait froid. J'errais dans la lande déserte,
Songeant, rêveur distrait, aux beaux jours envolés ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101111 1011011110 0110011110 101101101 11110101110 1111100100 11110110110 10001111110 11110101110 110110010110 0110011001 1111101100 1111111100 10001101010 1111001010 1001001110 0011111100 01010111011 110101110 101001110110 1011010111110 10101010111 1111000110100 111101111 111101011010 1111001101 01010111010 111101101 11110111111 11011011110 1000011111 11010100100 1101111110 1110111110110 1011110011 11010110111 1111011111111 1111111110 11100101110 1111011011010 11111001110 10101111110 1110010111 11101101011 110101111100 111111010101 110011101110 111010101110 111010111100 01111010100 11111110100 10111011000 11111011 11110100110 111010111 110011110100 110001010110 11101101101 111010101010 101111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; d, de, mes, et are repeated.

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

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

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