This is an analysis of the poem Prières Du Soir that begins with:

Lorsque tout bruit était muet dans la maison,
Et que mes sœurs dormaient dans les poses lassées...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaXa aXXa XXXa XXXX XXXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111110 111110111010 110101010 111111001010 1110011011 110010010111 11101001010 1101110010 11011111101 1010111010010 110011110100 1011101110 110011101100 11100110000 101011011100 111000110010 1110011101 10110110110 1111111100 11110100111 101001011110 111110110011 111100111 110000111110 110110010010 01010010110 11110101100 111100100100 110101110010 100100010011 110101110 101010100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

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

  • summary of Prières Du Soir;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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