This is an analysis of the poem Les Cloches Du Soir that begins with:
Quand les cloches du soir, dans leur lente volée
Feront descendre l'heure au fond de la vallée,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa XXXa XXXa XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011111 1010111011 111110110101 1111 111001101110 011101101011 111010111001 1111 111001101100 1011111110110 011010101111 101 111001110110 1001111011 110101110011 11111 111001110111 1111001110110 11011111101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- 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 author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; pour, de are repeated.
The author used the same word quand at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word moi 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 Les Cloches Du Soir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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