This is an analysis of the poem Ténèbres that begins with:
La tristesse a jeté sur mon cœur ses longs voiles
Et les croassements de ses corbeaux latents;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXa 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: 11001111111 11100011010 111110110111 1010011111100 1110111111101 101011111100 1111010111000 101101011111111 1111011001010 11101110100 11111011010 111111011111110 10011101010 10111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; je is 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 re is repeated).
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- summary of Ténèbres;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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