This is an analysis of the poem Vaticination that begins with:
À la grise clarté des brumes hivernales,
La bande des loups noirs, que chassent les vents froids,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXaX XbXb XccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111101000 11111110111 01110100111 01111110000 010111111010 111101011111 11010011001 101010100110 10110011101 011001111 010100111011 11001010110 1011011111 01011011011 011011101010 111100100111 01110010101 11101010101011 0101111011 11111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, le, et, se are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, du, le are repeated.
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- summary of Vaticination;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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