This is an analysis of the poem Les Éclairs that begins with:
Orages de l'amour, nobles et hauts orages,
Pleins de nids gémissants blessés sous les ombrages,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101011100 10110111100 101110101111 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; pleins, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word pleins is repeated.
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- summary of Les Éclairs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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