This is an analysis of the poem Chapelle Ruinée that begins with:

Et je retourne encor frileux, au jet des bruines,
Par les délabrements du parc d'octobre. Au bout...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11110111011110 11100011011 01111111110 1110110001110 11101010100 1011011010 11011111110 11111110111110 1011110101 11100111010 1111010110 1111011110 1111100101 11101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; le, les are repeated.

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

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