This is an analysis of the poem Le Rendez-Vous that begins with:
Il m'attend ! Je ne sais quelle mélancolie
Au trouble de l'amour se mêle en cet instant ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX XaXXX XaXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111110 1100101111110 111111110 11110111110 110 110111111100 11111100111011 11011110110 111101010110 110 110010111110 11110010110 1011101110110 10111101111110 110 1101101011110 111111100 11111011110 1111110111110 110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, ah are repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word m'attend at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Le Rendez-Vous;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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