This is an analysis of the poem La Cloche Dans La Brume that begins with:
Écoutez, écoutez, ô ma pauvre âme ! Il pleure
Tout au loin dans la brume ! Une cloche ! Des sons...
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: 101011111 1111111111 10101110010 10101001110 1101111011 111111110110 111001011 1111110010 1111011101 11110111010 101111111 1110100100100 1101011011 11100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; vous is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word comme is repeated.
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- summary of La Cloche Dans La Brume;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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