This is an analysis of the poem Le Cloître Noir that begins with:

Ils défilent au chant étouffé des sandales,
Le chef bas, égrenant de massifs chapelets,...

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: 1101111100 01110010100 101111010110 1011010110 110010110110 111100101010 101101110100 100011100100 110011111110 11010101110 1101101000 1101101101 110101011000 0110010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.

    The author used the same word ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Le Cloître Noir;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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