This is an analysis of the poem Tombe Isolée that begins with:

À Varennes, pays de calme et de bien-être,
Au milieu d'un enclos ombragé de grands fûts,...

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: 1001011011 10111010011 11001110010 10110011111 11111111110 1111100101111 1011110010 0101011111 1011111111001 11010010100 1101110110111 1011111010 01111101110010 1001010100010 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, me, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word tre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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