This is an analysis of the poem Les Communiantes that begins with:
Calmes, elles s'en vont, défilant aux allées
De la chapelle en fleurs, et je les suis des yeux,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa 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: 1010111011 0101111111111 1000010111 10100111011 10100111101000 10110110111 101010010010 11100011000 1101011110 1111111100 010111010 1111001010110 11111011101 111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Les Communiantes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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