This is an analysis of the poem Sous Les Faunes that begins with:

Nous nous serrions, hagards, en silencieux gestes,
Aux flamboyants juins d'or, pleins de relents, lassés,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aXa
  • 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: 111010110010 11001110101 11101000110 11111100010 101101110100 1010010110 1111001101 101110010010 10111111010 110101101010 1111101110101 11110010011 11011011011 111010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nous, s are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Sous Les Faunes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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