This is an analysis of the poem Violon De Villannelle that begins with:

Sous le clair de lune au frais du vallon,
Beaux gars à chefs bruns, belles à chef blond,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111010 1111111 110101010 101100 1101111011 1001111110 1011010111 101100 1110111111 1101011111 1001111010 101100 101101110 111111010 101111111 101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; du, la, les are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word villanelle at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Violon De Villannelle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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